They testify about police violence in Belarus

Ales Bystrik and his wife were on their way home in their car when a traffic police waved them in.

- When we stopped, we saw that there were minibuses there with riot police.

Police asked Ales to open the phone and went through his photos. When they found photos from demonstrations, they started beating him.

- You can stand with your face and body against the wall and legs wide apart. They hit their feet. They hit me in the head and said, "Because of you, the whole town is in revolt."

That same evening, entrepreneurs Dimitrij and Yevgeny drove a Russian business partner to his hotel. They were also first stopped by a traffic police officer. Then came two minibuses.

- Riot police jump out and start hitting us with batons.

They were taken to a police station where the beating turned into torture. About twenty people were held and beaten together with them.

- The sidewalk was covered in blood. Someone had their nose smashed, someone else their mouth. People spat everything out on the sidewalk. People fell and said "Rather kill me".

The torture continued for twelve hours.

Doctor Anna Bashkevich worked on election night on August 9 when the police put down the first demonstrations against the election result.

- Even then, patients with injuries from rubber bullets and broken bones began to come in.

It is not just men who are exposed to violence.

- We have had many cases of violence against women who have been abused with batons and suffered severe cervical injuries as a result. A woman loses her child due to abuse.