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CASE #242
Date
11 / 10 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Threats against the victim (death threats)
  • Use of excessive force
  • Use of rubber bullets (close proximity)
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of movement
  • Right to Life
Description

Time: nighttime

Place/Location: Dzerzhinsky Avenue 115

Identity of the victim(s): unknown protester

Identity of the perpetrator(s): OMON in black uniform and balaclava masks; special forces officers in gray uniforms, in protective ammunition, armed with firearms.

Buses full of agents arrived in the Malinovka district and OMON agents arrested protestors. A group of protesters tried to approach the agents, but an agent in grey started shooting from a pump-action gun into the crowd. The protesters started running away.

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