Police violence, last seen on the 19th of October, has a long history in Belarus. In 1996 the first violent beatings and detentions of opposition activists during Lukashenka´s rule took place. Since then, thousands of people have faced beatings, fines and imprisonments, according to the registrys of Belarusian human rights organizations. (25-OCT-04).
According to the testimony of Yaraslaw Navumenka, who was detained in relation to the protest action of 19 October, protestors were “thrown down on the floor and beaten” in police busses. He said it at the trial, but the judge of Minsk Leninski Court Tserashkova paid no attention to his testimony on torture, and sentenced him to 3 days of arrest. “Walked on” Violent beating |