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CASE #474
Date
11 / 08 / 2020
City
Brest
Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Type of violation
  • Beating
  • Blows with batons and/or truncheons
  • Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • Use of excessive force
  • Use of stun grenades (close proximity)
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: evening

Place/Location: praspiekt Masherova

Identity of the victim(s): undefined

Identity of the perpetrator(s): undefined

The video shows a line of police officers with shields, in front of which were scattered groups of protesters. There were numerous explosions of stun grenades in the immediate vicinity of the protesters. At 00:34, there was a person lying on the ground and three police officers were beating him.

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