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Investigative Committee: “Masked Men” Legitimately Beaten Up Doctor In His Apartment

Investigative Committee: “Masked Men” Legitimately Beaten Up Doctor In His Apartment
ZMITSER SERADA

Investigative Committee found no crime in the beating of the Minsk doctor Zmitser Serada by the police officers.

The resonant story took place on 4 August. At 8 am on August 4 unidentified men in masks broke into the apartment of the pediatrician Zmitser Serada: without ringing at the door and giving any explanations they knocked out the doors, descended from the roof and broke the glass in the balcony door in the kitchen. They threw Zmitser face down on the floor, twisted his arms behind his back and handcuffed him. All that in presence of his wife and little daughter. As it turned out, the doctor was suspected of exhibitionism. A day later he was released, found not guilty.

Zmitser Serada addressed human rights defendants of HRC “Viasna” for help and has already filed a complaint to the Main office of the Investigative Committee, asking to identify and to bring to justice those who ordered to take his apartment by storm and to forcefully detain him as a suspect in a criminal case, as well as those who was beating him up in the apartment and on the way to the police department of Zavadski district of Minsk on August 4.

Two months later, the doctor received a response to his complaint, containing the decision not to initiate criminal proceedings, signed by the investigator of department on investigation of crimes against the interests of the Minsk department of Investigative Committee A. Supichenka, agreed with the head of department A. Ivanou, spring96.org informs.

According to the decision, the investigators the police department of Zavadski district of Minsk Aliaksandr Nushchyk and Dzmitry Shkulkou claimed that Zmitser Serada’s detention had been conducted “in accordance with the law” and rejected the use of violence against him.

Head of the police department of Zavadski district Hermanovich also clarified that criminal investigator Nushchyk’s decision to engage riot policemen in the detention “had been taken on reasonable grounds.” The riot policemen also claimed that they hadn’t used “any violence against the detainee,” and that handcuffs and physical force, required for the actual detention, in the form of bending hands behind back, had been used “to overcome Serada’s possible resistance.”

According to the decision, the diagnosis “a closed craniocerebral minor injury: a brain concussion of 04/08/2016, a soft tissue bruise of the head, an anterior abdominal wall bruise,” established by the City Clinical Hospital №10, and “a brain concussion,” made by the health clinic №17 on 9 August, had been found groundless following the conclusion of the head of the neurological department of the City Clinical Hospital №10 Ivanou A.V., and the numerous bodily injuries and bruises, placed on record by the forensic medical examination on 14/9/2016, had been attributed “to the category of minor, not resulting in a short-term health disorder.”

It turns out that the complainant has numerous injuries, and nobody is responsible for causing them, but this fact does not confuse the investigator, who carried out the inspection. Zmitser Serada does not intend to put up with this situation and is going to file complaints to the IC management and the prosecutor's office, demanding to eliminate the apparent contradictions.

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