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In 2020, he participated in the crackdown on peaceful protesters and even acted as a &#8220;victim&#8221; in a criminal case targeting protest participants, BelPol said on January 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man moved to Lithuania with his wife and reportedly worked as a window installer. BelPol shared its evidence with Lithuanian investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evelina Gudzinskait\u0117 of Lithuania&#8217;s migration department told LRT that the case was under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former policeman told Lithuanian journalists that he planned to come back, but would not appeal a deportation order. He refused to comment on his past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 1, Pozirk. A former Belarusian police officer and his wife fled Lithuania after BelPol publicly claimed to have evidence of the man\u2019s complicity in politically-motivated reprisals in Belarus. The man returned to Belarus late on January 31 and may face deportation if he comes back to Lithuania, the Belarusian resistance group said. A native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":64313,"template":"","rubric":[14],"class_list":["post-64374","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Resistance group says its probe forced former Belarusian policeman to flee Lithuania | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 1, Pozirk. 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