According to international law, the police gave the order to commit crimes.
The international human rights organization Amnesty International is demanding an investigation into the facts from the audio recording made public by the ByPOL initiative, in which a man with a voice similar to that of Deputy Interior Minister
Mikalai Karpiankou speaks of (tough methods of fighting protesters), naviny.by reported.
"This recording - if it is authentic - is the most horrifying out of a string of incriminating leaks showing that the Belarusian authorities have made a decision to suppress a peaceful protest through deliberate human rights violations," the organization's website quoted the deputy director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia