Polish Gay Activist: I Was Brutally Beaten by Police

[Dan82]

http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/10/Nov/1401.htm

A member of the board of the Polish gay rights group Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH) was arrested and beaten by police officers in Warsaw on Thursday afternoon, the group revealed today.

Robert Biedroń was observing, on behalf of KPH, the ‘Independence March’ organised by radical right wing nationalist groups National Radical Camp (ONR) and the All-Polish Youth (MW). Antifascist groups tried to block the march.

“I went there as an observer for the Campaign Against Homophobia,” Mr Biedroń told a press conference at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights on Friday.

He told of how he and several others were “pinned to parked cars.

“They took out individual people, including me, from the crowd,” Mr Biedroń said. “But the worst thing happened in the police car. There, I was left alone with an officer. And, in simple words, I was brutally beaten.

“I’ve dealt with human rights protection for many years now and I'm devastated by what happened.”

Mr. Biedroń was subsequently taken to a police station where he was held for 20 hours without being allowed to contact a lawyer or his next of kin.

According to the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the police pressed charges of battery of a police officer against Mr Biedroń...

http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/10/Nov/1401.htm

[Moonstrike]

The police treat protesters badly?!?!??!!??!? NEVER.