Zmitser Bandarenka: They treated arrested like animals – some were beaten until beat ran

• 9.09.2009, 19:26

The arrested coordinator of “European Belarus” managed to phone us.

“There are 15 people in the Tsentralny district militia department. We were beaten during the detention on the square and then in a militia bus on the way to the department. They kicked people, stoke their heads with batons. Some activists were handcuffed. Viktar Ivashkevich is beaten up, Zmitser Barodka’s face is bleeding. Some are semiconscious. I had five blows at my head. Riot militiamen and officers of the Tsentralny district militia department refuse to call doctors. They treat the demonstrator like animals,” Zmitser Bandarenka told www.charter97.org.

Bandarenka managed to tell the names of some of the detained, guarded to the Tsentralny district militia department. They are head of the Minsk BPF department Viktar Ivashkevich, “Young Front” leader Zmitser Dashkevich,” European Belarus” activists Alyaksandr Atroshchankau and Zmitser Barodka, “The BPF Youth” activist Anton Koipish, as well as Radochynskaya, Spyasiutsau, Ivanou, Yakubouskaya, Harachka, Karpovich, Lemeshau, Syanchyla, Serhiets, Varanetski, Pyatrova.

The call was interrupted – riot militiamen took away the cell phone from Bandarenka.

We remind that a rally of protest against bringing Russian troops in Belarus with the slogan “No to Russian Occupation!” was brutally dispersed in Minsk today. Dozens were arrested.

Photo by "Radio Svaboda"

Photo by "Radio Svaboda"