Time: daytime Place/Location: under the bridge at the intersection of Nemiha str and prospect Pobeditelei Identity of the victim(s): male civilian, possibly a minor assaulted – not visible; young man, possibly in his 20s, orange T-shirt; young man, possibly in his 20s, bright green paints like a uniform, dark jumper; possibly passengers of a red […]
Perpetrators
Traffic Police (ГАИ)
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
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
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CASE #147
Date
04 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
Special forces attacked small groups of protestors near Kastrycnickaja Sq. They detained mostly men. Protesters were forced into vans with no identification plates.
Perpetrators
Plain clothed police officers
Undefined
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
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 #146
Date
04 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
A series of detentions/abductions by people in olive uniform/civilian clothes. The vans into which abductees were pushed bore no identification plates.
Perpetrators
Plain clothed police officers
Undefined
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
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
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CASE #145
Date
04 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
A young man with a white-red-white flag was running away from an agent in olive uniform when a man in civilian clothes attacked him using a headlock. The victim and other witnesses to the attack were taken into a blue van with no license plate.
Perpetrators
Undefined
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
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
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CASE #144
Date
04 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
Time: daytime Place/Location: 21 Zaharova street, the main building of Minsk State Linguistic University Identity of the victim(s): 4th year student Nikita Anackiy, Prohor Novitskiy, other students Identity of the perpetrator(s): OMON agents and undefined men, allegedly KGB special forces Severe detention of students by OMON agents and men in civilian clothes. One of the […]
Perpetrators
Plain clothed police officers
Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
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 freedom of opinion and expression
Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #143
Date
11 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
Special forces forced a car driver out of his car and repeatedly beat him with clubs.
Perpetrators
Plain clothed police officers
Special Rapid Response Squad SAHR
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
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
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CASE #142
Date
11 / 08 / 2020
City
Brest
Description
Numerous evidences of the murder of Genadz Shutau (Gennady Shutov; Генадзь Шутау). Click “Explore case” for more information.
Perpetrators
Undefined
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
Beating
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Murder
Threats (Intimidation of population)
Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
Right to liberty and security of person
Right to Life
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CASE #141
Date
21 / 08 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
Detainees stood along a wall on their knees with hands on the wall. The employees of the prison put the detainees along the wall, urging them on with blows of batons. In the end, a perpetrator repeatedly beat one of the victims who was complying with orders.
Perpetrators
Undefined
Type of violation
Beating
Blows with batons and/or truncheons
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Denial of appropriate conditions of detention
Forced postures
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
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CASE #140
Date
11 / 08 / 2020
City
Niasviž / Nesvizh
Description
A police van approached a group of about two or three dozen people. Policemen jumped out of the van randomly grabbing people, primarily men. People started to run away, but the police chased them and hit them with truncheons. Although the victims did not resist detention, the police keep hitting them. The police continued to hit one of the victims, who was already on the asphalt face down, on his legs with full force.
Perpetrators
Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
Beating
Blows with batons and/or truncheons
Physical assaults (other)
Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
Prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
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 #139
Date
12 / 08 / 2020
City
Mahilioŭ / Mogilev
Description
Two police officers equipped with truncheons forced a man to bend over with arms behind his back and pulling him in an unknown direction.
Perpetrators
Undefined
Type of violation
Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
Blows with batons and/or truncheons
Physical assaults (other)
Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
Right to freedom of movement
Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #138
Date
28 / 07 / 2020
City
Viciebsk / Vitebsk
Description
Plainclothes police officers silently forced Ruslan Achramchuk, who had been cycling in a residential area, into a black van. The officers refused to explain the reasons for the detention or show a warrant. One of them briefly showed an authorization document.
Perpetrators
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
Violations of rights of accused persons
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CASE #137
Date
01 / 09 / 2020
City
Minsk
Description
The police blocked a sidewalk preventing a group of student-demonstrators from walking in the opposite direction from Plošča Pieramohi. An OMON agent ordered the students to turn around and leave. Students refused. They kept standing on the sidewalk with their arms locked forming a chain. The police started pushing them back and randomly grabbed men to break the chain.
Perpetrators
Plain clothed police officers
Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Undefined
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 movement
Right to freedom of opinion and expression
Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion