Reporters Without Borders said the decision to suspend the probe into the October 2004 killing of Veronika Cherkasova means there is now little hope that those responsible for her death will ever be identified.
A statement from Reporters Without Borders said investigators, who had not found any clues to the identity of the murderer, had never explored the possibility that she was killed because of her work as a journalist at the independent trade union weekly Solidarnost.
Reporters Without Borders said Belarus is a country in which the murders of journalists are not investigated, citing the cases of Dmitri Zavadski, Mikhailo Kolomiets, and Vassili Grodnikov.
(Reporters Without Borders/AFP)
