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The videos show how masked Belarusian police arrest protesters who are at protests critical of the government that have been taking place for more than a month in Minsk, among other places. Eyewitnesses have recounted how the police used force against protesters in an attempt to stop the protests.
In connection with the demonstrations, the police are disguised and wearing helmets. During the demonstrations last week, the police arrested about 100 women. Today there have been new demonstrations and a dozen people have been arrested, according to official figures.
Hackers have now leaked personal data of 1,000 police officers in Belarus on the messaging service Telegram after a cyberattack by anonymous people.
“We will continue to leak large amounts of data on a large scale as the arrests continue,” he said in an anonymous statement published by the critical opposition news channel Nexta Live.
“No one should be anonymous”
“No one can count on being allowed to remain anonymous, not even under a ski mask (headgear),” the statement said.
The Belarusian regime responds that it will seek and punish those responsible for the leak that was disseminated in the encrypted application Telegram.
– The funds and technology we have will allow us to identify and prosecute most of those guilty of having leaked personal information on the Internet, says Olga Chemodanova, spokesperson for the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The UN is concerned
Thousands of protesters have been arrested during protests in Belarus. In connection with the demonstrations, the police are masked and wearing helmets. In connection with the latest demonstrations, the police arrested about 100 women.
In early September A group of UN experts received several reports of torture and ill-treatment and described the events in Belarus as “very worrying”. The UN has demanded that the country cease violence and torture against protesters.
Then the experts wrote that even 6,700 people had been detained in recent weeks, including several journalists.
“We are very concerned that there have been hundreds of complaints of torture and other forms of ill-treatment by the police,” they wrote in the statement.
