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August 14, 2020 Increasing evidence of brutality. The complaint is made by activists and human rights observers in Bilorussia against the people who were detained in after the protests for the presidential elections which sanctioned the highly contested reconfirmation of Alexander Lukashenko.

The BBC reports that some of the 6,700 people detained since Sunday and then released, have reported mistreatment, beatings. Amnesty International said the reports suggest "widespread torture".

Images on social media and audio of prisoners
Some of the released protesters shared images on the Nexta message app showing their swollen and bruised bodies, with the injuries that would have been caused
by police. In the audio shared by a BBC reporter, screams could be heard from a detention center in Minsk.

"We are told that the detention centers have become torture chambers, where protesters are forced to lie on the ground while the police kick and beat them with
batons," said Marie Struthers, Amnesty International's director for l 'Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Accusations of the brutality of the security forces also came from five UN human rights experts.

Interior Minister Interior
Minister Yuri Karayev said he took responsibility for the injured during the protests and would like to apologize to those involved in the
violence. According to observers, official statements and the release of the prisoners suggested a more conciliatory approach after public outrage and
international condemnation over the police response.

EU sanctions hypothesis
Yesterday, Germany summoned the Belarusian ambassador and the hypothesis of sanctions against the regime is open in Brussels.