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CASE #350
Date
15 / 11 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
  • Traffic Police (ГАИ)
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Beating
  • Blows with batons and/or truncheons
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
  • Right to liberty and security of person
Description

Time: daytime

Place/Location: near Pushkina Metro Station

Identity of the victim(s): unknown

Identity of the perpetrator(s): Undefined OMON officers, a patrol officer

The detention of protesters, a man in black clothes and balaclava hit another man, probably a protester. Women started yelling telling them that he was unconscious (and it looks so). A serviceman pushed a woman, so she fell down. Some detainees were beaten by truncheons.

Some of the police officers were armed with long barreled weapons.

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