A large group of police officers in various uniforms chases scattered protesters down the street. Many of them wear helmets and shields.

After the main group of policemen have run through, a large group of officers stop near a car stopped in the roadway. They forcibly pull the passengers outside and beat them with truncheons and kick. At the end of the video, they approach another car nearby, preventing the driver to move away.

“The video shows several cars pulling up in the far right lane at an intersection, waiting to make a right turn.

Several police vehicles are parked at the intersection. At 00:21 one of them turns on the flashing lights, and the police, among whom the riot police officers dressed in full uniform and the traffic police, begin to walk along the row of cars.

Passengers of several cars are forcibly dragged out by the police and thrown to the ground, beaten with truncheons and kicked.”

The video was filmed from the balcony of a residential building. In the video, three police cars block a black sedan, around which there are traffic police officers with truncheons.

After some time, a black minibus with no numbers drives up, people in balaclavas and black clothes with “OMON” written on their backs. They demonstrate an extremely high level of violence, run up to the car, start shouting “Get out!” and beat the car with truncheons, trying to hit the people sitting inside through the open windows. Officers take four male passengers out of the car and beat them. Also, a woman gets out of the car, no violence is used against her. The men are pushed into a minibus and taken away, at some point the policeman takes the car keys from the woman’s hands.

Nikita Klim, 19, from Lida tells about his detentions and tortures.

A group of police officers in uniform and helmets attempted to detain several protesters with a flag. Other protesters rushed to help. The police fired stun grenades right at the feet of the protesters.

Yaroslav Veselovich was detained on August 11 in a parking lot near the castle. He was returning from a peaceful protest in the city centre. It is difficult for Yaroslav to remember what happened next. He says they started beating in the bus and continued on the territory of the so-called “car wash” – the garage of the Lida District Department of Internal Affairs.

Eyewitness videos show police officers beating detainees in the courtyard of the police station. The detainees do not resist and lie motionless on the ground. Not far away, other detainees are lying face down on the asphalt. Several police officers violently beat several immobile detainees on the ground with truncheons.

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The video shows a line of police officers with shields, in front of which are scattered groups of protesters. There are numerous explosions of stun grenades In the immediate vicinity of the protesters. At 00:34 there a person lying on the ground could be seen, 3 police officers beat them.

A line of OMON police officers blocks the sidewalk. The policemen are dressed in uniforms, helmets and shields, they are facing one direction.

One of them turns around and starts walking back, from there a man in civilian clothes comes up. Seeing the officer, he says something to him, spreads his arms and kneels, clasping his hands behind his head. Another officer runs from the man’s back, he strikes with a running foot in the back of a man who is on his knees. After that, begins to beat him with a truncheon.

After some time, another officer joins him, together they take the man away, wringing his hands behind his back.

The video shows multiple stun grenades explosions amidst the crowd, the off-screen voice says: ” Menty! Menty!. [“Menty” is slang name for the police]. There is no signs of violence amidst the protesters.