Demonstrations have been going on regularly in Belarus since the August presidential election. Alexander Lukashenko won, receiving just over 80 percent of the vote.
On Sunday, as many as 580 people were arrested, according to the human rights center Vesna. It writes the Russian news agency Tass. Opposite the newspaperDoes Nikita Domrachev reveals that he is one of them.
Domratsjev, whose sister is Darja Domratsjeva, four-time Olympic winner and Ole Einar Bjørndalen’s wife, has already been released. A video published by the same website shows the actual arrest.
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– Threatened me
Nikita Domrachev tells the newspaper that he was cycling along a bike path in Minsk on his way to visit his mother, when he saw uniformed police running towards him.
– I was scared and turned around, but around the corner of the building I met another group of officers. They pushed me off the bike and without explaining why, they started beating me, says Domrachev.
He says he was worried about his bike, which he values highly. But Domracheva’s brother claims the officers then threw him into a minibus.
– They threatened me and stabbed me with a baton. I saw nothing after the blows to the face. At one point, I thought I had gone blind, and asked if they could call an ambulance, says Domrachev.
He says they drove around town for an hour and that he was given bandages to stop the bleeding.
LOWERED THE SHIELDS: A protester embraces a soldier standing guard at a government building in Minsk. This happened after soldiers and other security personnel lowered their shields during a demonstration. Video: AP / Photo: REUTERS / Vasily Fedosenko view more
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Must be in court
At the police station, Domrachev must then have been told to sign a protocol, he says himself.
– There they wrote that I had participated in an illegal demonstration. I felt so bad, had a headache, so I did not dispute it and signed.
He tells Tut that he does not know when he will have to appear in court after the incident.
Darja has previously commented on the demonstrations in Belarus Instagram. In August, she wrote:
– I love my peaceful, dear Belarus! And it should be so! I ask everyone that this depends on, everyone who gives orders, the leaders of the departments of the OMON (special police / rebel police), to stop the violence. Do not allow this unjust and terrible thing to continue on the streets. It can be resolved in a peaceful way. Please hear.
Ole Einar Bjørndalen has not yet responded to Dagbladet’s inquiry.
