HR defenders report mass detentions of youth to UNO
8 Belarusian organizations signed the document initiated by the Center for Legal Transformation.
Let us remind you, a punk concert in
support of the "Food not Bombs" group (the movement which gives Vegan
and Vegetarian food to the homeless) should have taken place in the Minsk
tractor plant's palace of culture on March 24. However the concert had hardly
started when riot policemen stormed in and detained all the people there, about
a hundred. Many of them were released afterwards, but 14 people found
themselves in the Akrestsina street detention center. 13 of them were sentenced
to fines and administrative detention, while Ihar Trukhanovich was sent to
hospital with minor brain concussion.
The Belarusian human rights community urges the working group on violent
detentions of the United Nations Organization to react to their appeal.
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