Media: Lukashenka's Security Forces Testify in the Case of Torture of Poles in Belarus

The victim's lawyer wants to seek responsibility for the Belarusian authorities.

According to rmf24.pl, the Polish Internal Security Agency interrogated new witnesses in connection with the investigation into the detention, beating, and torture of three Poles after the presidential elections in Belarus.

Among those questioned, there are employees of the Belarusian security agencies. They witnessed the torture of Poles.

Their testimony is valuable because it reveals the mechanisms used by the authorities in Minsk in relation to the protesters, helps to find out what the ordering system looked like.

New evidence is constantly emerging in the case. They managed to reconstruct incidents in Belarus with the participation of the Poles almost by the minute.

All security officials, as the newspaper notes, are being checked. Some of them are still working for the regime, and their real task is to obtain information about the ongoing investigation.

Commissioner for torture wants to extend the investigation

"My goal is to bring charges and send indictments against the employees of the Belarusian security services and those who gave the orders," said lawyer Tomasz Wilinski.

The lawyer does not comment on the past hearings due to the secrecy of the investigation. According to him, in cooperation with human rights organizations and victims from other countries, he would like to achieve an expansion of the investigation. The aim is to show that the Belarusian authorities have committed a crime of directing an organized criminal association of an armed character, which included officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, KGB, AMAP, and police.

The lawyer clarifies that we are talking about the evidence of the commission of crimes against freedom and the use of torture by the officials of the regime against the civilian population.

The Polish prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the arrest, beating, and torture of three Poles in Belarus in September.

After returning from Belarus, the three men immediately underwent a detailed examination, and a forensic medical examination confirmed their injuries.