at your hands? translator: no, i would not like to take this opportunity. i don t think that this is even a relevant question and in principle i have nothing to apologize for. reporter: you say you have nothing to apologize for, but human rights watch says multiple detainees have reported broken bones, broken teeth, brain injuries, skin wounds, electrical burns. amnesty international speaks of detention centers becoming torture chambers where protestors were forced to lie in the dirt, stripped naked while police kicked and beat them. you don t think that is worth apologizing for? translator: you know, we don t have a single detention center as you say like guantanamo or the bases that the united states and your country created in eastern europe. as regards to our own detention center, they are no worse than in britain or the united states.
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you don t think that is worth apologizing for? translator: you know, we don t have a single detention center as you say like guantanamo or those bases that the united states and your country created in eastern europe. as regards to our own detention centers, they are no worse than in britain or the united states. i suggest you discuss concrete fa facts. i don t think human rights watch and amnesty international are dubious. they re internationally recognized standards in human rights activism and they ve all got testimony of former detainees in your prison camp, in your prison detention center, both men and women, who have spoken of sexual violence against them. including rape and threats of rape. are you saying that that is just made up? that it s fake? everything that you ve just said is fake and fantasy. for the past 27 years, the
responsible, dubbed europe s last dictator. reporter: would you take this opportunity now to apologize to the people of belarus for the human rights abuses that they ve suffered at your hands? translator: no, i would not like to take this opportunity. i don t think this is even a relevant question. in principle, i have nothing to apologize for. you say you have nothing to apologize for, but human rights watch says multiple detainees have reported broken bones, broken teeth, brain injuries, skin wounds, electrical burns. analysts international speaks of detention centers becoming torture chambers where protesters were forced to lie in the dirt, stripped naked while police kicked and beat them with truncheons. you don t think that s worth apologizing for? translator: you know, we don t have a single detention center, as you say, like
there is no room for hate speech on other side and i don t expect anything coming of hunter or his party for that matter. do you feel like there is any clear standard articlated about bigotry, what it s worth apologizing for or resigning over? it s very clear that bigotry is not okay in our public discourse. all of us you mean that as a normative statement. it shouldn t be. it s not that clear that it s not okay in public discourse. and it s clear there is racism, sexism and et cetera, et set tree in american because it s deeply rooted in our society and we have a responsibility to call it out when we see it and so it s important to call it out. i don t think there is one standard that says once somebody crosses this line then they have to resign but what i do think is important is that we re not weaponizing anti-semitism, sexism and not only using it or