BACK TO MAP
CASE #105
Date
30 / 08 / 2020
City
Žodzina / Zhodino
Perpetrators
  • Plain clothed police officers
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Denial of legal rights of arrested persons
  • Physical assaults (other)
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • Right to freedom of opinion and expression
  • Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
  • Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion
  • Right to liberty and security of person
  • Violations of rights of accused persons
Description

Time: daytime

Place/Location: Gorodskoy Rynok, near ulica 50 Let Octyabrya

Identity of the victim(s): male civilian(s)

Identity of the perpetrator(s): The police, unknown men in civilian clothes and masks

The event in question concerned the brutal arrest by the police of a 50-year-old man with a white-red-white flag. The policemen held the man by the neck in a chokehold and dragged him into a police car. The members of the public nearby demanded that the police release him. There were men in civilian clothes and masks escorting the police and supervising arrests.

Share case
Sources