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CASE #184
Date
01 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description

An OMON agent and a man in plain clothes grasped a student with a white-red-white flag. Pr. Belevec broke in to prevent the detention. The perpetrators took Pr. Belevec into custody instead.

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 freedom of thought, conscience and religion
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #183
Date
01 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description

The videos captured the detention of protesters, most of whom were students. OMON agents grabbed students randomly, primarily men. They caught those who tripped and fell or were the closest to them. In one of the videos, the agent negligently grabbed the victim from behind pushing him to the ground.

Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Physical assaults (other)
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
  • Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #182
Date
01 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description

A group of people was running in the direction of the train station Minsk-Passagirskij. One of them was caught by servicemen. Two of the servicemen twisted the victim’s arms behind his back and led him in an unknown direction with two other servicemen escorting them.

Perpetrators
  • Plain clothed police officers
  • The Internal Troops of Belarus
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #181
Date
01 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description

Coming from Michajlaŭski Garden Sq., a large group of OMON agents and enforcement agents in camouflage uniforms were chasing and randomly grabbed protesters off the street. Protesters, some of whom had white-red-white flags, were trying to escape detention. An off-screen voice screams “You brave because you fight against children!”.

Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
  • Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #180
Date
01 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description

Two men in plain clothes forced a woman, allegedly a resident of the residential complex Mayak, into a car. The woman screamed for help. A female bystander urged the kidnappers to stop, but to no avail.

Perpetrators
  • Plain clothed police officers
Type of violation
  • Abduction
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #179
Date
27 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description

Peaceful protesters gathered near The House of Government. OMON agents were randomly taking protesters into custody. The video captured four detentions. The reporter was asking the agents and detainees to comment on the events when men in plain clothes approached under pretense of checking his accreditation. They consequently detained the reporter.

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 freedom of the press
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #178
Date
10 / 08 / 2020
City
Žodzina / Zhodino
Description

Servicemen detained a man in civilian clothes. There were plenty of servicemen and policemen in the area. The detainee resisted at the beginning. Servicemen forced him to the ground and dragged him. The man had what appears to be something on this left arm (a splint?) and declared repeatedly that he had not violated anything. People around demanded to free the detainee and not to break his arm. The chief of Zhodino GOVD in civilian clothes with a radio station was present there.

Perpetrators
  • The Internal Troops of Belarus
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
International classification of violations
  • Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
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CASE #177
Date
30 / 08 / 2020
City
Žodzina / Zhodino
Description

Policemen detained a man who was approximately 50 to 60 years old with a white-red-white flag. Civilians demanded that the policemen let the man go. The policemen grabbed him by the neck in a choke hold and dragged him into a police car. Some men in civilian clothes helped the police.

Perpetrators
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • 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 Life
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CASE #176
Date
10 / 08 / 2020
City
Žodzina / Zhodino
Description

Three male civilians were forced on the ground. A servicemen in black uniform pointed a firearm at them, another one hit one of the civilians with a club. A man in civilian clothes got out of a silver van and made a call to someone while standing next to the detained.

Type of violation
  • Beating
  • Blows with batons and/or truncheons
  • Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
International classification of violations
  • Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • Violation of rights of detained or imprisoned persons
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CASE #175
Date
11 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description

Many detainees were lying face down on the ground and one on another in the courtyard of the police precinct. Around seven guards (policemen and men in black) were watching them. The video was taken by a woman from a building near the precinct. She commented that the detainees were kicked, beaten and tortured.

Perpetrators
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Beating
  • Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • Slapping, kicking or punching
  • Torture
International classification of violations
  • Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • Right to Life
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CASE #174
Date
11 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description

Servicemen grabbed and brutally beat men, including kicking and blows by batons, several agents on one. Blows were heard.

Perpetrators
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Beating
  • Blows with batons and/or truncheons
  • Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • Slapping, kicking or punching
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to liberty and security of person
  • Right to Life
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CASE #173
Date
11 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description

A servicemen in black uniform and hit with full force a white van that was making a right turn. He destroyed the left side mirror.

Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Type of violation
  • Damage to property
International classification of violations
  • Right to protection of property
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