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CASE #363
Date
23 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
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: nighttime

Place/Location: residential area near the roundabout at Pushkinskaya subway

Identity of the victim(s): unknown males

Identity of the perpetrator(s): Special Purpose Police Unit OMON officers

There were lots of flowers on the ground near Pushkinskaya subway. Two vans arrived in the area. Approximately fifteen fully-equipped policemen (black clothes and equipment) jumped out of the vans and ran uphill towards residential buildings. They grabbed a few males, possibly protesters, and took them into the vans.

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