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CASE #405
Date
13 / 12 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • Plain clothed police officers
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Slapping, kicking or punching
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • Right to liberty and security of person
Description

Time: daytime

Place/Location: at one of the residential buildings at Adzincova str.

Identity of the victim(s): undefined

Identity of the perpetrator(s): undefined. Plainclothes police officers - half plainclothes /half equipped.

Five officers in mixed uniform and civil clothes detained an unarmed civilian allegedly in a residential neighbourhood of Adzincova street. They forced him on the ground, face down, tied his wrists and took him to an unknown direction. On their way, one of the officers kneed the victim in the stomach several times and slapped him in the head. Off-screen female voices commented that the victim lived in the 6th or 7th entrance of the building and the victim was near the building talking on the phone when the officers attacked him.

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