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CASE #193
Date
09 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • The Internal Troops of Belarus
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Blows with batons and/or truncheons
  • Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
International classification of violations
  • Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Description

Time: night

Place/Location: the exact location is not possible to identify

Identity of the victim(s): unknown

Identity of the perpetrator(s): undefined agents of the internal troops of the MIA and possibly OMON agents

Internal force agents and possibly OMON agents transferred detainees from one paddy wagon to (possibly) another. They forced the detainees to rush and hit them with clubs while the detainees were running to another wagon. One of the detainees slipped and fell down, but quickly got up. At some point, a vehicle came to pick up the servicemen.

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