Beaten girl reports head injury

Youth activist Tatsiana Tyshkevich beaten in Minsk on Solidarity Day has reported a head injury. The girl is currently in the neurosurgery department at the Hospital No 9 in Minsk. Human rights defender Iryna Toustsik told Charter'97 that doctors diagnozed a "a minor head injury". A police investigator today came to the activist to collect evidence.

Tatsiana Tyshkevich was beaten on August 16 when she attempted to prevent the detention of Mikita Sasim, a fellow activist, by plainclothes men. The police agents reportedly threw her on the ground and made several kicks.