Time: 11 p.m. Place/Location: in front of Papovich Str. 6 Identity of the victim(s): Alyaksey Lapa, his friends. Aliaksey Lapa escaped to Lithuania. Identity of the perpetrator(s): according to the Blackbook of Belarus, OMON officers Pavel Konan, Artsiom Lohish (slightly injured), Viachaslau Kastsiuk, Mikita Karzkau, Aliaksandr Baraban, Maksim Bayko (driver) – they all were witnesses […]
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
International classification of violations
Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Right to liberty and security of person
Violation of rights of detained or imprisoned persons
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #338
Date
22 / 03 / 2021 – 06 / 04 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description
Mikalay Kazlou was detained by OMON on March 22, 2021. He was falsely accused that he had offered resistance to policemen of Tsantralnaye RAUS. In the detention centre, he was in the isolation ward (intended for 1 person) with several homeless persons and three political detainees. The homeless persons had lice infestation and probably other illnesses. Detainees were every day subjected to chlorine poisoning (causing tears, flue, cough, vomiting reflex).
Perpetrators
Detention Centre Personnel
Militsiya of the Republic of Belarus (regular police of Belarus)
Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Denial of appropriate conditions of detention
Torture
International classification of violations
Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Right to liberty and security of person
Violation of rights of detained or imprisoned persons
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #337
Date
05 / 12 / 2020
City
Pruzhany
Description
Time: evening Place/Location: at a bus stop Identity of the victim(s): Mikhail Aliaksandravich Kisel, two women Identity of the perpetrator(s): undefined local policemen, including a Lieutenant Colonel (surname is not clear), police car service # 2270 A lieutenant colonel required people to follow him to realize a “preventive conversation” at the district department of internal […]
Perpetrators
Militsiya of the Republic of Belarus (regular police of Belarus)
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
International classification of violations
Right to liberty and security of person
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #336
Date
23 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
Time: nighttime Place/Location: residential building No. 3 near Pushkinshaya subway station Identity of the victim(s): Eugenij, a taxi driver, 21 years old; сar passenger – a student, 18 years old, name is unknown. Identity of the perpetrator(s): unknown A young guy ran away from four members of the police forces. He managed to get into […]
Perpetrators
Undefined
Type of violation
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Damage to property
Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
Right to liberty and security of person
Right to protection of property
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #335
Date
14 / 07 / 2020
City
Pruzhany
Description
Two men were apprehended by police after they refused to follow policemen. Police was helped by one man in plain clothes.
Perpetrators
Militsiya of the Republic of Belarus (regular police of Belarus)
Plain clothed police officers
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
International classification of violations
Right to liberty and security of person
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #334
Date
11 / 08 / 2020 – 14 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
Interviews of people released from the Akrestsina detention centre.
Siarhey: They were beaten all the time for the first five hours. A man had a spinal fracture. Many men had wine-coloured buttocks due to beating. All detainees were beaten. 15-14 y.o. teenagers and 70 y.o. man were among detainees. An epileptic who had an epileptic seizure was not provided any medical aid.
Perpetrators
Detention Centre Personnel
Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Undefined
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
Beating
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Right to liberty and security of person
Violation of rights of detained or imprisoned persons
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #333
Date
10 / 10 / 2020 – 22 / 10 / 2020
City
Homyel / Gomel
Description
Maksim Ahtsienka was detained in Homyel on August 10, 2020. There were not many people on Savyetskaya Street at 7 p.m., so they went to a bar on the quay. They had small portable radio sets. When they left the bar, they were detained and beaten by AMAP (OMON). In Homyel RUUS, he was beaten, including blows by truncheons, kicked, verbally insulted, subjected to degrading treatment and death threats. As a result of the beating, he fell unconscious.
Perpetrators
Militsiya of the Republic of Belarus (regular police of Belarus)
Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Undefined
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
Beating
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Right to liberty and security of person
Violation of rights of detained or imprisoned persons
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #506
Date
23 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
A water cannon was spraying water on the honking cars in Pritytsky street.
Perpetrators
Militsiya of the Republic of Belarus (regular police of Belarus)
Type of violation
Use of excessive force
Use of water cannons
International classification of violations
Right to freedom of opinion and expression
Right to liberty and security of person
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #332
Date
23 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
Two OMON officers and one plainclothes police officer detained a man next to the Palace of Independence. The victim was put in a Ford minivan, license plate ‘9915 PH-7’.
Perpetrators
Plain clothed police officers
Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
International classification of violations
Right to liberty and security of person
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #331
Date
09 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
Aliaksandr Sadousky was injured by rubber projectiles during protests in Minsk after the elections. Servicemen started shooting without warning; protesters did not threaten or provoke them anyway. Both projectiles got him in the belly; one of them through the belly. Servicemen (probably, from the Investigation Committee) took away all evidence when Aliaksandr was in the hospital (projectiles, clothes as well as his military identity card, phone and keys).
Perpetrators
Undefined
Type of violation
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Use of excessive force
Use of rubber bullets (close proximity)
International classification of violations
Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #330
Date
22 / 11 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
Several patrol policemen and OMON officers beat a detained man with truncheons.
Perpetrators
Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Traffic Police (ГАИ)
Type of violation
Beating
Blows with batons and/or truncheons
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Right to liberty and security of person
EXPLORE CASE
CASE #329
Date
22 / 11 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
Servicemen applied riot control weapons to break up a demonstration.