News on the topic: torture
10.01.2011 Journalist Andrei Pachobut beaten by Hrodna KGB
Andrei Pachobut, a journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza and a popular Belarusian blogger, was detained by special task forces in Hrodna on 8 January, guarded to a KGB department, and beaten by KGB officers at the questioning.
13.12.2010 Offender of Rymasheuski’s electioneering agent comes off clear
The bully who tore away the campaign posters that were displayed in the authorized locations and tried to beat Vital Rymasheuski’s electioneering agent Valeryia Charnamortsava, was detained over a week ago, but still hasn’t been brought to a trial. Itself the victim this time not only not invited to the court of the Soviet district of the capital, which must review the case, but also to hide from her name forward.
13.12.2010 Hrodna region: assaults on members of Niakliayeu's team
Two assaults on activists of the electoral team of candidate Niakliayeu have been registered these days.
07.12.2010 Beating of activist of Niakliayeu’s campaign
A stranger attacked a volunteer near a picket of the presidential candidate Uladzimir Niakliayeu.
06.12.2010 Vitsebsk: members of electoral team of Ales Mikhalevich threatened with beating
According to Ales Halavan, he and other members of Mikhalevich’s team face obstacles while handing leaflets to passers-by. In particular, they were expelled from the territory of the shopping center Evicom by its guards who stated that the activists had no right to hand out leaflets there and needed to apply to the presidential administration for permission.
05.10.2010 Kanstantsin Zhukouski released after 10-days arrest
Oct. 4 October the member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Kanstantsin Zhukouski was released from the pre-trial prison of the Petrykau District Police Department.
13.09.2010 Riot police accused of beating teachers
The Vitsebsk procuracy is looking for witnesses of the incident that happened during the closure of the Slavonic Bazaar festival last year. Three teachers allege having been groundlessly beaten by officers of the Minsk riot police who ‘secured the public order’ in Vitsebsk during the festival.
08.09.2010 Two Kobryn entrepreneurs allege being beaten by KGB officer
The Kobryn entrepreneurs Andrei Fedasiuk and Viachaslau Kuryshka applied to the Brest law enforcement officers for assistance.
27.07.2010 Procuracy sees no reasons to bring a criminal case concerning beating of Zmitser Parmon
Zmitser Parmon, an activist of the BPF Youth, has received from the Tsentralny District Procuracy of Minsk an answer to his request to bring a criminal case against the policemen who had beaten him during the detention on 27 May.
27.07.2010 Minsk: detentions and beating at action dated to 20th anniversary of Sovereignty Declaration
The action was held in Yakub Kolas Square in central Minsk and was attended by about 20 activists.
23.07.2010 Guy François Toukam: I wanted to kill myself after 40 days in Akrestsin jail
In his interview to the European Radio for Belarus Guy François Toukam told about the conditions in the Minsk jail, beating, prison food, racist jokes of cellmates and also noted having to pay $250 for 1,5 months of the ‘rest’ in Akrestsin Street.
09.07.2010 Artur Finkevich hospitalized after assault
Artur Finkevich and Aliaksandr Lykshyn were going to the central office of the Belarusian Popular Front along Masherau Avenue in Minsk. Suddently, several people ran towards them, sprayed an unknown liquid in Artur's eyes and knocked him down.
06.07.2010 Mahiliou: trial concerning cruel treatment of activist of ‘Speak Truth’
On 5 July, the Leninski District Court of Mahiliou started considering the complaint of Aksana Samuilava, a volunteer of the Speak Truth civil campaign, who accused the chief guard of the Mahilou factory Liftmash of infliction of bodily injuries to her.
03.06.2010 Beaten youth activist demands a criminal case be instigated against policemen
On 27 May, the police violently dispersed a bicycle rally organized by activists of the BPF Youth. Several participants of the action were detained and beaten. One of them, Zmitser Parmon, was taken to clinical hospital #6 with fracture of a clavicle.
01.06.2010 'BPF Youth' activists apply to procuracy concerning their beating by police
Two BPF Youth activists, Franak Viachorka and Zmitser Parmon, addressed the procuracy in order to find out the names of riot policemen who had beaten them during the detention.
