Belarus accused the UN office staff in illegal payments for protesters at the expense of people with disabilities. About this It is reported on the website of the Permanent Representative Office of the Republic when separating the UN in Geneva .
Minsk argues that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights allocated funds for legal assistance to persons with disabilities or victims of domestic violence. However, the Human Rights Advisor appointed to the office of the UN Constant Coordinator on Belarus decided to use money for other purposes.
With this adviser, two UN office workers in Belarus created a “illegal payment for lawyers’ fees” for 23 people who participated in “illegal protests aimed at undermining statehood.” This also participated director of “Office for the Rights of People with Disabilities” Drozdovsky and his employee who charged fraud.
In Belarus, on August 9, 2020, presidential elections were held. The CEC announced that Alexander Lukashenko scored 80 percent of the votes for the sixth term. It caused mass protests throughout the country that continued for several months. A number of opposition politicians and activists were arrested. The authorities argued that the external forces are about what is happened.