EU demands that Belarus's testimony in Belarus be investigated: 'Shocking reports'

On Monday, the EU announced that it wants to see an investigation into how arrested protesters in Belarus have been treated.

- Due to shocking reports of inhumane conditions in prisons, the EU expects a thorough and transparent investigation so that those responsible can be held accountable, says Josep Borrell, the Union's Foreign Minister.

However, the Belarusian regime continues to dismiss the allegations.

Riot police are also heavily criticized. The Belarusian ambassador to Slovakia has published a video in which he claims that his daughter's classmate is one of those who has been severely beaten by the police.

- I stand in solidarity with those who have taken to the streets in Belarusian cities for peaceful protests, he says.

He also compares the actions of the police with Josef Stalin's secret police NKVD who became notorious for the use of torture and executions of hundreds of thousands of people in the 1930s.

The riot police have withdrawn somewhat in recent days, and a party atmosphere has arisen in the streets of Minsk. But the regime-critical account Belamova, with 500,000 followers on the Russian social media app Telegram, urges not to take the victory in advance.

"Even though we have set things in motion, the tyrant Lukashenko still has power. So it's too early to celebrate. Very early ", they write in a post.

And the testimonies of violence continue to come in - despite the feeling of victory in the streets. A protester, Natalia Skibska, says that her 20-year-old son disappeared without a trace during the protests.

"I did not know where he was," she told Reuters.

It later emerged that he had been detained and beaten for six days.

- The law does not protect us, says Natalia.

The protests show no signs of fading. This past weekend, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Minsk to express their dissatisfaction with the president.

The 31-year-old protester "Alexei" is one of them.

"We all want Lukashenko to resign," he told Reuters.

- At the moment we are asking him, but in the end we will get tired of asking.