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CASE #271
Date
23 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Threats (Intimidation of population)
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
Description

Time: nighttime

Place/Location: Niamiha str., in front of the KFC Prospekte Pobeditelei 1, Minsk.

Identity of the victim(s): unknown

Identity of the perpetrator(s): unknown

Many demonstrators were in the middle of the road blocking a van. At one point, all the demonstrators who were blocking it started running. A few moments later, some people with batons started to get out of the vehicle. Some of them ran towards the demonstrators.

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