MEDIA: THE VICTIMS OF TORTURES IN MINSK ARE TAKEN OUT OF THE CITY

The correspondents who are currently near the Minsk detention center, where the detainees were taken during the protests, report that severely beaten people are not allowed out of the main entrance - they are taken away from the center and simply thrown out of the cars.

According to "Lenta.ru", the local people call the Minsk special detention center on the Okrestino Street a "torture" center, because the prisoners there are treated extremely cruelly. A volunteer camp has been set up near the center, where the representatives of media and relatives of the detainees are on duty.

Volunteers report that the torture victims are not allowed out of the detention center to avoid attracting public attention.

Instead, they are secretly taken outside Minsk, away from the center, and simply thrown out into the streets. According to one of the witnesses, the volunteers drive cars behind the paddy wagons to "pick up" the prisoners. She also noted that one of the volunteer drivers was "fired on" for this.

Another story caused a wide resonance these days - a Belarusian who disappeared during the protests on August 12, was found hanged on a tree on one of the streets of Minsk on August 22. His wife said that he himself could not do it - the man was a football fan, there was no news about him for about 10 days. At the same time, the last location in his phone was the Republican Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Minsk.   

In total, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus received hundreds of statements about the missing people after the protests.

We should recall that the protests in the country have been going on for the third week now, and the reason was the results of the presidential elections - the protesters do not agree with the victory of Alexander Lukashenko, who has been a head of the country for 26 years. Large factories all across the country went on strikes, and the head of the opposition and the main rival of the incumbent president, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, stated that she was ready to become a national leader.

In turn, Alexander Lukashenko claims that the protests were financed by the foreign states, and the protesters themselves clashed with the security forces. On August 23, Lukashenko was noticed the by the media representatives in a bulletproof vest and with a submachine gun in his hands - in this form, he left the helicopter after an aerial examination of one of the protests of those who disagreed with the results of the elections.