Brutally beaten by police Mouchan may stand trial (Photo)

• 22.05.2012, 13:28

Human rights activists are looking for eyewitnesses of beating an activist of European Belarus civil campaign.

“I had a terrible headache in the morning. Now I feel better,” Andrei Mouchan said in an interview to Narodnaya Volya newspaper. “Doctors diagnosed me with a closed head injury. My jaw was X-rayed on suspicion I have a fracture.

I haven't decided yet if I will apply to court against policemen. I did not remember their names. But the one who accompanied me to hospital said I would be tried. He said a police report for an unauthorized picket was drawn up against me. I do not know whether I should believe it or not, but you can expect everything from them.”

We remind activist Andrei Mouchan was beaten by police as they were trying to detain him. The activist raised a national white-red-white flag as a sign of solidarity with Syarhei Kavalenka and walked from Pershamaiski shop down the street.

A lawyer and human rights activists fear doctors will not mention all injuries the young man received from policemen.

“Andrei is at hospital. I saw him yesterday. Lawyer Volha Bezbarodkina is going to visit him today,” Maria Kasyan, an activist of European Belarus civil campaign, says. “The lawyer wants to control that doctors recorded all injuries Andrei received from the moment of detention till admission to hospital.

Mouchan's lawyer waits for police's reaction and prepares a counter claim. The lawyer also filed a claim to a prosecutor's office and prepares an appeal to the personal security office of the main police department complaining at the actions by the police officers, who detained the young man.

“There were many witnesses of how policemen snatched a flag and began to beat him in the street. People were indignant, they tried to defend Andrei. We want to find eyewitnesses of the beating,” Maria Kasyan says.