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The prosecutor’s office of the Central district of Minsk has refused to launch a criminal case against policemen who had beaten up a young activist Zmitser Parmon.

A young activist was detained with other oppositionists on May 27 before a bike ride dedicated to Maxim Bahdanovich. During the detention Zmitser Parmon and Franak Vyachorka were beaten, and after that Zmitser found himself in the hospital #6 with a clavicle fracture, and he came through a few complex surgical operations.

The prosecutor’s office of the Central district had been carrying out investigation of the facts by Zmitser for a long time. And finally an answer was received, signed by investigator A. A. Bachyla, who said to the affected activist that “the prosecutor’s office of the Central district of Minsk has carried out a check following your application, and as a result of that on 09.07.2010 a decision was adopted to dismiss criminal complaint… for absence of crime in the act”.

And then the answer repeats evidence of witnesses in much detail. The testimony by all the policemen –N. Zhdanau, A. Hradovich, A. Lazutsin, S. Lyashok, A. Sharedau, A. Yakimau, D. Kasperski –was the same, as if where carbon copies. And investigators “do not find grounds for doubting explanations of those policemen” and finds bodily injury of Zmitser Parmon as “received as a result of his own negligence”.