An opponent of the Belarusian government tried to kill himself in the middle of the trial against him

When the guards tried to help him, they could not quickly open the cell because they did not have the keys and when they took him out, the activist was unconscious. Las pictures of incident were uploaded to networks by witnesses to the trial and immediately toured the world.

According to the Vesna Center for Human Rights, Stepan Latypov denounced that investigators had promised that “if he does not plead guilty”, criminal proceedings will be opened against “relatives and neighbors”.