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CASE #331
Date
09 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • Use of excessive force
  • Use of rubber bullets (close proximity)
International classification of violations
  • Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Description

Time: nighttime

Place/Location: near Kalvaryiskaya Street

Identity of the victim(s): Aliaksandr Sadousky

Identity of the perpetrator(s): undefined

Aliaksandr Sadousky was injured by rubber projectiles during protests in Minsk after the elections. Servicemen started shooting without warning; protesters did not threaten or provoke them anyway. Both projectiles got him in the belly; one of them through the belly. Servicemen (probably, from the Investigation Committee) took away all evidence when Aliaksandr was in the hospital (projectiles, clothes as well as his military identity card, phone and keys).

During the interrogation in the Investigation Committee, he had neither the status of the injured party nor any other status.

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