Journalists Petition to Investigate the Beating Case

Accord­ing to TUT.by jour­nal­ist Aly­ona Sharam­et, as of Mon­day, 175 peo­ple signed the peti­tion.

Col­leagues of Pavel Dabravol­s­ki sent sev­er­al dozen sim­i­lar peti­tions, on paper and by e‑mail, to the Min­istry of the Inte­ri­or, the Chief police depart­ment of the Min­sk City Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee and to the Supreme Court of Belarus.

Mean­time, the med­ical expert fixed bruis­es and abra­sions on the journalist’s face, shoul­der and cor­pus; the injuries were inflict­ed by a blunt object with­in a day before the med­ical exam­i­na­tion, and clas­si­fied as light bod­i­ly injuries, reports naviny.by.

The jour­nal­ist already had two meet­ings with an offi­cer of the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee.

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