‘They Tortured My Son, Like Jesus Christ, To Death: His T-Shirt Was Torn To Pieces, His Body Was Black As Coal’

The mother of the Belarusian, beaten to death by the police on New Year’s Eve, speaks up.

28-year-old resident of Rechytsa Dzmitry Uskhopau died in the emergency room of the regional hospital.

The relatives of the deceased say that on the night of December 31 to January 1, he was detained by a police patrol. During the detention, the man allegedly “resisted”.

According to human rights activists from the Viasna HRC, after some time the police brought him to the emergency room of the hospital in a state of clinical death. When his relatives saw him, his clothes were torn, he was doused with water all the way down to his underwear. There is a round wound on the left temple. The handcuffed wrists were blue.

Dzmitry's relatives believe that the guy was beaten at the police station and doused with water.

Nasha Niva talked to Uskhopau’s mother, Mrs. Alena Uskhopava. Here's what she said.

- Is it true about your son that he passed away?

- This is undescribable. They killed him - the police killed him. I am the widow of an Afghan soldier, write this down! .. And I gave birth to a son from a policeman ... They tortured my son to death, like Jesus Christ, only he was28 years old ... Let them carry me along with my son and put me in the ground next to him.

- How did he get to the police? Why was he there?

- He was heading to my place to celebrate the New Year, and stood at the bus stop with a friend: “I’m coming up,” he called me and said. They drank champagne and ate tangerines there. And then the police were driving by: drinking. They twisted his arms. And he said - I'm going to my mother, let me go, do not detain ... And then they did this to him ... There is a wound on his temple, his back is blue, his arms are blue. The shirt is torn to pieces, the body is black as coal. I can't speak anymore ...

The Father, Mr. Aliaksandr Uskhopau, said to Nasha Niva:

“The police told us “he died”, and we came to take him from the morgue, they said “ah, is this the one who was killed?”.