MINSK. June 30 (Interfax) - Two last individuals implicated in a criminal case dealing with the establishment of an illegal armed unit in Belarus have been released from pretrial custody, the Vyasna human rights center not officially registered in Belarus reported on Friday.
"Two of the last people implicated in the case dealing with the establishment of an illegal armed unit, Viktor Moroz and Miroslav Lozovsky, were freed on June 30," Vyasna said on its website.
As well as the other suspects in the case freed earlier, Moroz and Lozovsky were released from the detention facility under a pledge not to leave town and behave appropriately, it said.
Belarusian Investigative Committee Chairman Ivan Noskevich had announced Moroz's and Lozovsky's planned release from custody earlier on Friday.
"The case is under my personal control. At the present time, we believe there are no reasons for the suspects to remain in custody, and therefore we have made this decision. As concerns the future, it's too early to talk about it, and the investigation will demonstrate everything," the Investigative Committee press service quoted Noskevich as saying.
According to human rights organizations, a total of 16 people have been charged in Belarus with setting up an illegal armed group; 14 of them were released from the Interior Ministry's pretrial detention facilities on June 27-30 and two others had been free earlier from the State Security Committee (KGB) detention facility.
It was reported earlier that the KGB had detained 26 activists of White Legion and Young Front in March 2017 on suspicion of plotting mass unrest after President Alexander Lukashenko had said he suspected some 'fifth column' was seeking to destabilize the situation in the country and stir up a color revolution.
Some of those detained were also charged with the establishment of an illegal armed group, a crime covered by the Belarusian Criminal Code Article 287.
The prosecution of some detainees was later terminated, and some others were freed from pretrial custody.