HR defenders report mass detentions of youth to UNO

Let us remind you, a punk concert in support of the "Food not Bombs" group (the movement which gives Vegan and Vegetarian food to the homeless) should have taken place in the Minsk tractor plant's palace of culture on March 24. However the concert had hardly started when riot policemen stormed in and detained all the people there, about a hundred. Many of them were released afterwards, but 14 people found themselves in the Akrestsina street detention center. 13 of them were sentenced to fines and administrative detention, while Ihar Trukhanovich was sent to hospital with minor brain concussion. 

The Belarusian human rights community urges the working group on violent detentions of the United Nations Organization to react to their appeal.

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