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CASE #459
Date
08 / 04 / 2021
City
Hrodna / Hrodno
Description

The video captures a car with a white-red-white flag on the roof and a Pahonia coat of arms sticker on the bonnet. It was originally published by the Hrodna Police press service and was mockingly dubbed “With convictions, but without a car”. According to reports, police detained a 31-year-old resident of Slonim, who was driving along the M11 highway.

Perpetrators
  • Militsiya of the Republic of Belarus (regular police of Belarus)
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Denial of legal rights of arrested persons
  • Procedural violations
  • Unlawful confiscation of property
International classification of violations
  • Right to fair trial (procedural violations)
  • Right to freedom of opinion and expression
  • Right to liberty and security of person
  • Right to protection of property
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CASE #458
Date
27 / 03 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

Law enforcement officers in balaclavas and black clothes detained a couple of persons. The detainees don’t seem to resist arrest, but nevertheless one of the officers hit one of the detainees on the legs with a truncheon.

Perpetrators
  • Undefined
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
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CASE #457
Date
26 / 03 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

An unmarked blue minivan stopped near the pavement then the door of the van opened and three police officers in balaclavas and all-black clothes started chasing a person who was standing alone on the pavement. Officers run after the person, grabbed their backpack and by pulling it made the person fall down on the ground where they apprehend the victim. According to Belsat, the victim was detained for having a white-red-white flag with them.

Perpetrators
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of opinion and expression
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #456
Date
27 / 03 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

Undefined law enforcement officers wearing balaclavas and black plainclothes detained Nasha Niva’s journalist Katya Karpitskaya. Her press badge is visible as she is led away. Two more journalists of the news outlet were detained the same day at the same location.

Perpetrators
  • Plain clothed police officers
  • Undefined
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 #455
Date
27 / 03 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

Law enforcement officers in anti-riot gear detained a man sitting alone on a concrete bench, holding white-red-white flowers.

Perpetrators
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of opinion and expression
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #454
Date
27 / 03 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

Police officers wearing balaclavas and plain black clothes violently detain a person. After the detention three of them started to drag the detainee and two of them proceeded to run in the other direction.

Perpetrators
  • Plain clothed police officers
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #453
Date
27 / 03 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

Police officers wearing balaclavas and plain black clothes with yellow armbands arrest at least six protesters. They loaded protesters into an unmarked blue minibus. At the end of the video two of the officers started running in an unknown direction, likely to pursue the next victims.

Perpetrators
  • Plain clothed police officers
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
International classification of violations
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #452
Date
27 / 03 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

OMON agents violently force a protester into an unmarked blue van.

Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #451
Date
27 / 03 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

Police officers arrest several protesters. One of them is forcibly carried to the police van.

Perpetrators
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #450
Date
25 / 03 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

Two enforcement officers in balaclavas and black clothes without insignia detain a person. reportedly after chasing them to a gas station. Officers walk and hold the detainee in an unnatural position with their back bent and hand behind their back high in the air.

Perpetrators
  • Plain clothed police officers
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Use of excessive force
International classification of violations
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #449
Date
25 / 03 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

OMON agents arrest at least three participants during the Freedom Day march.

Perpetrators
  • Special Purpose Police Unit OMON
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
International classification of violations
  • Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
  • Right to liberty and security of person
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CASE #448
Date
25 / 03 / 2021 – 09 / 04 / 2021
City
Minsk
Description

Maria Tikhanova is a 4th-year student at the Directing Department of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow, a citizen of Belarus, was walking behind Nina Baginskaya, who was giving an interview to a news outlet. Maria was making a documentary about Baginskaya. A police officer came from behind Tikhanova and dragged her off.

Perpetrators
  • Undefined
Type of violation
  • Arbitrary or unlawful arrest and/or detention
  • Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • Physical assaults (other)
  • 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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