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CASE #119
Date
09 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Use of excessive force
  • Use of stun grenades (close proximity)
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
  • Right to liberty and security of person
  • Right to Life
Description

Time: around midnight

Place/Location: Frunzenskij District, highway

Identity of the victim(s): protesters

Identity of the perpetrator(s): Special Purpose Police Unit OMON; other unidentified groups of government forces

Barricades of garbage cans, multiple eruptions, one of which created a smoke haze. Protesters covered their ears with their hands. Several trucks and soldiers with silver shields stood right in front of them.

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