A resident of Minsk received a gunshot wound to the chest during a protest on Sunday, November 29. Tut.by reports this on December 2.
29-year-old programmer Dmitry Kapustenok said that he was detained at about 13:00. “People ran, I was behind, stumbled and fell on my hands. Suddenly I heard a pop and realized that they had shot me,” the Belarusian protester explained.
The security forces took the detainee onto the bus and took him to RUVD . There he saw clotted blood and asked to treat the wound. “They could not find the first-aid kit and sprinkled the wound with an antiseptic, which was found on another detainee. I asked to call an ambulance,” Kapustenok continues.
Medics arrived a few hours later and took Dmitry to a military hospital. The diagnosis says that he received a gunshot bullet, blind, non-penetrating wound to the chest on the right. Contusion of the right kidney is questionable.
The next day, the patient was released home. He left a receipt that he would appear in court: an administrative protocol was drawn up against the programmer under the article “Violation of the order of organizing or holding mass events”.
Mass protests have been taking place in Belarus for the fourth month. They began after the presidential elections on August 9, at which, according to the CEC, Alexander, who ran for a sixth term Alexander Lukashenko received 80 percent of the votes.