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CASE #429
Date
26 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Perpetrators
  • Traffic Police (ГАИ)
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of opinion and expression
  • Right to liberty and security of person
Description

Time: nighttime

Place/Location: memorial Taraykovskaha near hotel Orbita at Prytisckoho 21

Identity of the victim(s): women who brought flowers in memory of Taraykovsky, the victim of Lukashenko regime

Identity of the perpetrator(s): Traffic Police (ГАИ). undifined

Two young women were at the Taraykovsaha Memorial. One of them was dressed in a white dress holding flowers. A traffic policeman stopped them, later joined by two other men in civilian clothes. All three wanted the girl in the white dress to follow them. She refused. Then they grabbed her by the arm and forced her into a white minibus that just arrived. The other girl proceeded with them. When they loaded the victims in the minibus, several policemen in black came out to help.

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