In Belarus, the former prisoners complained to torture in the center of insulation of offenders (CIP) on Okregin in Minsk. About what is happening there they reported in an interview with the Human Rights Center “Spring”.
Two vacated art innovatives said that the conflict with the CIP administration began after on November 3, ten women in a double chamber declared a hunger strike in response to inhuman conditions of detention. In particular, they were not suitable that they took all overprices and warm things, and also refused to give them soap and toilet paper.
According to one of the former prisoners, the next morning the employees of the insulator flooded two buckets of the chlorine solution into the chamber and dropped the personal things of women on the floor. On the same day, the head of the CIP came in a walking courtyard to the artantchiks, and threatened the temperature in the residential room may fall to plus seven degrees, and the ability to wash only after rising home.
On November 5, the prisoners stopped the hunger strike, but the hard appeal to them after that did not cease. On November 6, the chlorine solution was poured into their chamber again, the door was closed with a tightly, and the stray models asked to “throw lice” on their clothes of other artants and to convey on them. Toilet paper and soaps there for women issued only November 9.
In June, the 20-year-old Russian Russian Dudnikov detained in Minsk spoke about torture, beatings and threat to the murder from Belarusian law enforcement officers in the SIZO. According to a young man, the security forces threatened to bury him alive and take a girl hostage.