Belarus states it has actually obtained an asylum demand from a male desired in the USA for his function in the storming of the United States Capitol.
Evan Neumann showed up on Belarusian state media on Sunday, after unlawfully going across the boundary and also looking for asylum.
The 48-year-old gets on the FBI” s desired listing in the USA over the harmful insurrection at the Capitol in January.
Hundreds of advocates of former-US head of state Donald Trump stormed the structure to avoid chosen authorities from confirming Joe Biden’s triumph in the 2020 governmental political election.
Neumann is encountering numerous costs over his claimed function, consisting of attacking a law enforcement officer and also civil problem.
He is thought to have actually taken off to Europe in March and after that invested numerous months in Ukraine prior to making it to Belarus in August.
In a meeting with Belarus 1 in Brest– near the boundary with Poland– Neumann stated he unlawfully went across the boundary due to the fact that he was being “maltreated” by Ukrainian safety and security solutions.
An FBI record on Neumann, offered on the United States Division of Justice web site, mentions that he was formerly associated with the “Orange Transformation” that brought pro-Westerners to power in Ukraine in 2004 and also 2005.
Belarus has no extradition treaty with the USA and also stress have actually risen complying with the contested re-election of Head of state Alexander Lukashenko in August 2020.
The United States and also the EU have actually enforced permissions on Lukashenko’s regimen following his rough suppression on challengers and also the “forced and also illegal touchdown” of a Ryanair trip to detain an unorthodox reporter.
