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CASE #368
Date
23 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • The Internal Troops of Belarus
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
International classification of violations
  • Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • 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: On Prospekt Pobeditelei

Identity of the victim(s): two unidentified peaceful protesters, one female and one male

Identity of the perpetrator(s): a whole bunch of anti riot officers, fully-equipped with riot shields

A woman was on the ground. She managed to get up and approached a policeman who ordered her to go forward. There was a line of anti riot policemen in the background. They were fully-equipped and they carried riot shields. One of them grasped a demonstrator and forced him on his knees. The victim did not resist.

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