Interior Ministry and City Administration of Internal Affairs refuse to apologise for beating journalists
The representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the City Administration of Internal Affairs of Minsk city executive committee, which are responsible for protection of public order, refused to apologise for beating journalists committed by policemen during the opposition action on December 19 in Minsk.
Such suggestion arrived from the journalists to the first deputy head of the public order protection and prophylactics department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Aliaksandr Barsukou and the deputy head of the City Administration of Internal Affairs of Minsk city executive committee Ihar Jauseeu, at the press-conference on December 23.
Barsukou replied it was not the topic of the press-conference - the meeting with journalists was dedicated to the issue of organization of public safety during Christmas and New Year holidays.
The representatives of the MIA and the CAIF also refused to answer the question how many policemen who suffered from the opposition activists' attacks were in hospitals, due to the same reason.
They also refused to either confirm or refute the information provided by the media that some policemen in private clothes suffered from their colleagues, sent to Minsk from other cities.
Both Belarusian journalists and their foreign colleagues, officially accredited in Belarus, suffered during the action. More than 20 journalists were detained, the same number were brutally beaten by the police, reports BelaPAN.
Such suggestion arrived from the journalists to the first deputy head of the public order protection and prophylactics department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Aliaksandr Barsukou and the deputy head of the City Administration of Internal Affairs of Minsk city executive committee Ihar Jauseeu, at the press-conference on December 23.
Barsukou replied it was not the topic of the press-conference - the meeting with journalists was dedicated to the issue of organization of public safety during Christmas and New Year holidays.
The representatives of the MIA and the CAIF also refused to answer the question how many policemen who suffered from the opposition activists' attacks were in hospitals, due to the same reason.
They also refused to either confirm or refute the information provided by the media that some policemen in private clothes suffered from their colleagues, sent to Minsk from other cities.
Both Belarusian journalists and their foreign colleagues, officially accredited in Belarus, suffered during the action. More than 20 journalists were detained, the same number were brutally beaten by the police, reports BelaPAN.
