Minsk, August 11, 2020: During a protest against the Lukashenko regime’s tampering with the election, the police beat a protester.
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As the editor of the Belarusian magazine Nascha Niwa, he was imprisoned in the summer. Here, the journalist Andrei Dynko wrote about the conditions of the Minsk prison, where thousands of political prisoners were held.
A generationI was dragged across a concrete corridor: a gray floor, and the underside of the wall was painted dark turquoise with shiny oil. I can’t see anything: I’m not being led, but being dragged, my left arm is twisted, my head is pressed down, and I’m ordered to put my right hand behind me, it’s still holding some plastic bags. Things, it hangs on my ass-this is the world I have left. Until 12 hours ago, I was a 47-year-old father of three children and the editor of the most popular Belarusian language magazine.
“On the wall! Hands behind your back!” A key turned in the lock. “Go to the cell, soldier!” The rotten, sultry, strong smell of urine and shit in the cell welcomes me and makes you immerse in the water of your new life.
