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
EXPLORE CASE
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
EXPLORE CASE
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
EXPLORE CASE
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
EXPLORE CASE
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
EXPLORE CASE
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
EXPLORE CASE
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
EXPLORE CASE
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
EXPLORE CASE
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
EXPLORE CASE
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
EXPLORE CASE
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
EXPLORE CASE
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