Belarus: Homophobic Attack on Filmmaker

Expand Nikolai Kuprich after the attack. © 2019 Personal Archive (Moscow) – Police in Belarus are investigating a brutal attack on a filmmaker and two colleagues early on the morning of August 25, 2019, Human Rights Watch said today. Unidentified assailants in Minsk verbally threatened the three men and then violently attacked Nikolai Kuprich, the filmmaker. He was hospitalized for days after the attack with serious head injuries. Kuprich is a documentary filmmaker who has been working with the Belarus Free Theater, a production group, on a film about the prejudice and discrimination that…

© Human Rights Watch - jeudi 12 septembre 2019