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Belarus rock musician faces extradition on phony murder charge

Sat, 2009-11-14 06:58 — ABN

Amnesty International has declared rock musician and social activist Igor Koktysh to be a prisoner of conscience who "is being persecuted for his political views." Koktysh was tried on trumped-up murder charges in Belarus in 2001, and was allegedly tortured in an attempt to force him to confess, but he was acquitted after he proved he had been in another city at the time.

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