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CASE #282
Date
08 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • Plain clothed police officers
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
  • Traffic Police (ГАИ)
Type of violation
  • Abduction
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of opinion and expression
  • Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
  • Right to liberty and security of person
Description

Time: daytime

Place/Location: across the road from praspiekt Mašerava 9, building 8

Identity of the victim(s): two female protesters

Identity of the perpetrator(s): OMON; Police Patrol Service - car ID "П740, identity unknown

At least 7 OMON agents in olive uniform and 2 plainclothes police officers brutally forced two women with a white-red-white flag over their shoulders into one of a few minibuses without license plates. A police car driving along another lane did not take any actions to verify the identities of the perpetrators/minivans.

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