International Day in Support of Victims of Torture June 26 notes.
International Day of United Nations in Support of Victims of Torture, was approved by the UN General Assembly in 1997 on the recommendation of the Economic and Social Council.
This day is held to eradicate torture and to ensure effective functioning of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which entered into force June 26, 1987.
After the presidential elections in Belarus, December 19, 2010 in the country were arrested on the order of 1 000 opposition activists. Against the presidential candidates, their staffs, journalists and human rights have been prosecuted. 41 people have been convicted on criminal charges and more than 30 of them are now serving sentences ranging from 3 to 6 years imprisonment.
On torture in the KGB detention center, where the arrested, said the presidential candidates Andrei Sannikov and Ales Mikhalevich. This information is then confirmed political prisoners Alyaksandr Atroshchankau, Alexander Klaskovsky, Anatoly Lebedko, Natalia Radzina.
The presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov said that in the KGB prison for his torture, degrading treatment, pressure and threats. Over political prisoners in the KGB jail mock riot unknown fighters in masks and armed with batons and electric. Throughout the period of interrogation Sannikov was placed in a chamber without a place where he slept on the floor under the bunks were subjected to humiliating searches, forcing strip naked, put on the stretch, twisted his hands handcuffed, beaten with truncheons on the legs. Personally, chairman of the KGB conducted with Sannikov Zaitsev ' explanatory conversations ' and threatened the lives and health of his wife and son.
Presidential candidate Ales Mikhalevich presented a list of torture used in the KGB detention center (...
Methods of abuse.
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a. January 10, ... Descended the spiral staircase to the basement. They said, twisting my hands behind my back as high as possible up until it started to crunch the joints that I have to carry everything you need from me. Holding hands in this position for a long time, and raised higher and higher until they said that I would fulfill all the requirements. Quarantine officers at the same time there was not even in the corridors.
2. Systematically - 5-6 times a day - taken out ... During this bare set to ... When the hooking legs felt like bursting ligament at the end of this procedure was difficult to walk. Placed naked on a distance of about a meter from the wall, forcing his hands to build the wall in the room where the air temperature did not exceed 10 degrees. Kept so for 40 minutes, until the hand swelled. On several occasions demanded that at the same time put his hands on the wall with his hands up and was just so.
3. During the so-called personal inspection of all drove in a cold room stripped naked and forced to perform harsh squats for a few dozen times in a row. Concluded with poorer health during this felt bad, but the masked men that did not stop.
4. At night, do not switch off the fluorescent lamps, require a person to lie down under the lamp, not cover the face with a handkerchief, ... As a result, vision began to deteriorate. Ordered to bed, turning Wear layer to the ... In fact, it took the form of torture lack of sleep.
5. Painted the floor in the chamber for acetone and paint required to be in fact, unventilated room until the paint has dried. This effect lasted for more than 40 hours.
6. In the very chamber air temperature did not exceed 10 degrees, there was virtually no heating. On the wall was a black mold that grew when the window closed.
