Raman Bandarenka facts for kids

Raman Bandarenka (Belarusian: Раман Бандарэнка, Russian: Роман Бондаренко) (August 1, 1989, Minsk – November 12, 2020, Minsk) was an aspiring Belarusian designer, and shop manager. His death is associated with the protests against the 2020 Belarusian presidential election. Raman Bandarenka died after reportedly being beaten by security forces. Police forces said they found him uncounscious and called an ambulance.

According to sources, masked assailants in civilian clothing beat him up, in the yard of his appartment building, in the evening of November 11, 2020, in Minsk. Locally, this appartment complex is known as "Square of Changes" (Ploscha Peramen)." Later, a minibus took him away. An ambulance brigade brought from the Central District Department of Internal Affairs (Police Station) to a local hospital. At the time he ambilance took him, he was unconscious.At the hospital, he was diagnosed with diferent injuries to the head and brain, bruises, and abrasions. Banderenka was operated in an attempt to save his life and fell into a coma. He never recovered and died on November 12, 2020, in the hospital in Minsk.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights spoke on the death.