Beatings, fractures, electric shocks, sexual violence: “in many cases the ill-treatment was reported to be of such a severe nature that it would amount to torture in various forms”, said the EU Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, in a statement issued on Monday 21 September.
In view of the brutality of the repression, she reminded the Belarusian authorities that international law requires them to investigate any allegation of torture or ill-treatment and...