\u201cAn emergency doctor examined me in the militia department and said I needn\u2019t medical help. I complained I felt severe pain when breathing in, but he didn\u2019t render help and refused to take me to hospital for an x-ray to be made. I asked him to say his name, but he didn\u2019t say. I know it was the brigade No 955.<\/p>\n
After the trial, where I was fined, I myself took an emergency to get to a hospital. They took me to hospital, I had an x-ray made, they said to wait a little. Then not a traumatic surgeon, but a nurse came up to me, she was angry and said: \u201cYou have nothing!\u201d. She didn\u2019t even showed a snap to me. I said I felt pain, so there must be a reason for it. She called a surgeon and he said I had nothing serious, if I wanted medical care to be rendered, I should have gone to a hospital of my district. I said I lived in another town. \u201cSo go there,\u201d he answered. But it continued to pain, and finally I went to Minsk policlinic No 3,\u201d Andrei Babitski said to the Charter\u201997 press center.<\/p>\n
Andre Babitski reminds how his rib was fractured by riot militiamen on 25 March:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t let us go to Yakub Kolas Square. When many people gathered, riot militiamen and militiamen said us: go to Victory Square and use metro to get to Academy of Science. But the road to Victory Square was blocked! We found ourselves in a circle. People were pushed, they began to fall down and panic. People said it looked like tragedy on Nyamiha. Then riot militiamen formed a corridor and began to drag us and pack into a bus. People in civvies showed whom riot militiamen needed to detain.<\/p>\n
Riot militiamen beat us in the bus. They made us knee, keep head down and clasp hand behind the head. I remember hit at ribs. I heard that they beat everyone who let arms down, or raised the head.<\/p>\n
When we came we saw many of us were beaten up, a lad had his arms seriously injured, it hung loose, he couldn\u2019t move it. Someone had a torn ear…\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Doctors of Minsk hospital No 3 diagnosed Andrei Babitski, activist of the civil campaign \u201cEuropean Belarus,\u201d with \u201cclosed displaced fracture of eighth rib.\u201d The youth activist and dozens of other participants of the demonstration on 25 March were beaten up brutally by riot militiamen. Emergency brigade, called to the Savetski district internal affairs department, refused to help the oppositionist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}