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Title: ACAB (Dispatch from Minsk) Author: Mikola Dziadok Date: August 14, 2020 Language: en Topics: ACAB, Belarus Source: Retrieved on 29th November 2020 from https://therussianreader.com/2020/08/14/acab-dispatch-from-minsk/ Notes: Translated by the Russian Reader
Here’s another morsel for those who enjoy shouting “The police are with
the people!”
A Minsk resident told me this story.
A 17-year-old boy was detained the day before yesterday under the
pretext of “What you doing here?” He was taken to a police station,
where he was beaten in the assembly hall. Moreover, although it was
regular cops who had brought him in, it was the OMON (riot police) who
did the beating. Then they laid him face down on the floor, like so many
other [detainees in recent days].
They telephoned his guardians. His guardian came to the police station,
and they started beating the fuck out of him, too.
He asked what for.
They asked him why the fuck he had come.
He replied that they had telephoned him themselves and told him to come
retrieve his kid.
They replied by asking him how old he was and what kid he was talking
about. (The man has two kids of his own.)
After some time, the man and his ward were finally released. The man
said that another man, around fifty years of age, was still in police
custody when they left, and he had been jailed for the same reason: for
coming to pick up his kid. And the same thing had happened to him.