Lithuanian citizen beaten in Minsk turns to police in Vilnius over regime violence
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Alexander Lukashenko and OMON police forces. / AP
Maria Matusevich, a Lithuanian citizen of Belarusian descent, has turned to the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau after being beaten by the Belarusian security forces in Minsk.
"The questioning took a long [time]. She told everything. Her story is interesting," Alexander Dobrovoslky, representing the headquarters of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in Vilnius, told BNS.
This marks the second time when a person has turned to the Lithuanian law enforcement over violence at the hands of Belarusian security forces.
In December, Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office launched a pre-trial investigation into crimes against humanity in response to a request from Belarusian citizen Maxim Khoroshin.