Okrestina

Okrestina Detention Centre, Akrestsina Detention Centre, officially, the Criminal Detention Centre of the Minsk Executive Committee’s Main Internal Affairs Directorate (Belarusian: Цэнтра ізаляцыі правапарушальнікаў ГУУС Мінгарвыканкама, Russian: Центр изоляции правонарушителей ГУВД Мингорисполкома), is a pre-trial detention centre in Minsk, Belarus. The prison is known as a detention centre for activists of the Belarusian opposition arrested during mass protests against the authoritarian regime of president Alexander Lukashenka.

Criminal Detention Centre of the Minsk Executive Committee’s Main Internal Affairs Directorate
Security classCriminal Detention Centre
Managed byMinsk City Police Department
Street address1-y zavulak Akrescina, 36
CityMinsk
Country Belarus

Name

The prison is most commonly referred by its informal name Okrestina (Russian: Окрестина) or Akrestsina (Belarusian: Акрэсціна, official transliteration: Akrescina) derived from the name of the street where it is located (which is in turn named after Soviet WWII ground-attack pilot, hero of the Soviet Union Boris Okrestin).

Torture
Protester shows bruises from tortures at Okrestina, 2020

According to numerous reports, many protesters arrested during the 2020 Belarusian protests, are tortured in Okrestina by soldiers of the OMON.[1][2][3][4]

Okrestina Detention Center

Famous Inmates

See also

References
  1. Thousands demonstrated outside the infamous Okrestina jail in Minsk demanding the release of all prisoners - intellinews.com, August 18, 2020
  2. Belarus election: 'Widespread torture' inflicted on jailed protesters - BBC, 14 August 2020
  3. The mutual aid corridor ‘Meduza’ visits the volunteer camp outside of the infamous Okrestina detention facility in Minsk - Meduza, August 19, 2020
  4. Journalist Tatsiana Belashova: Akrestsina is a manmade hell - Belarusian Association of Journalists, 16.08.2020
  5. Ціханоўскага і яшчэ 7 затрыманых перавезьлі на Акрэсьціна, траіх выпусьцілі [Tsikhanouski and 7 more detained were transferred to Akrestsina, three were set free] - Radio Svaboda, 30 May 2020
  6. Дзясяткі чалавек чакалі Севярынца пад сценамі Акрэсціна, але яго так і не вызвалілі [Tens were waiting for Sieviaryniec at the walls of Akrestsina but he was not set free] - Belarusian Christian Democracy official website, 22 July 2020
  7. Палітык Мікалай Статкевіч прызнаны палітычным зняволеным [Politician Mikalai Statkevich recognized as political prisoner] - Viasna, 30 June 2020
  8. Някляеў пра Акрэсціна: Ляжыш і дзярэш на сабе жыўцом скуру [Niakliayeu about Akrestsina: You lay there and skin yourself alife] - Belsat, 11 May 2017
  9. Зміцер Дашкевіч: У ізалятары сядзеў, як у прыбіральні… [Zmitser Dashkevich: In the detention centre I felt like I was in a toilet] - Viasna, 29 March 2019
  10. Палажанка выйшла з турмы на Акрэсціна [Palazhanka set free from prison on Akrestsina street] - Nasha Niva, 30 September 2011
  11. З турмы – на допыт у пракуратуру [From prison to interrogation at the prosecutor's office] - Charter'97, 31 January 2008
  12. Лябедзька выйшаў з ізалятара пасьля 15 сутак арышту [Liabiedzka set free from the detention centre after 15 days of arrest] - Radio Svaboda, 31 March 2014
  13. "Голад, холад, пацукі" - Франак Вячорка пра ўмовы свайго ўтрымання ў следчым ізалятары на Акрэсціна ["Hunger, cold, rats - Franak Viačorka about the conditions of his detention in the centre on Akrestsina street] - Deutsche Welle, 17 February 2008

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