Riot Policemen Beat 75-Year-Old HR Defender Valer Shchukin
- 26.03.2017, 11:57
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There is a suspicion his arm could be fractured.
Valer Shchukin, who was brutally beaten by the policemen in the Zavodzki district police department, has been trasnsported to a hospital by an ambulance, Radio Liberty reports.
Previously, eye-witnesses informed that 75-year-old Shchukin was brutally beaten in the police department, and the policemen scrornfully noted he was absolutely healthy. Valer Shchukin has an insulin-dependent form of diabetes. After the beating in the police department, his arm could be fractured.
Valer Shchukin is one of the most famous human rights defenders in Belarus, a member of the Supreme Council of the 13th convocation. He turned 75 on March 22.