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They Beat Them Until They Can No Longer Work

The Stowbtsy police beat a man until he lost the ability to work, and the authorities refuse to issue a certificate of the beating. The Belarusian Club received a telegram asking it to investigate the case.

They Beat Them Until They Can No Longer Work

On 6 May 1924 the Belarusian Club of Members of the Sejm received the following telegram from the town of Stowbtsy:

On 5 May the police beat [a man] until he lost the ability to work. The authorities refuse to issue a certificate. We ask you to send a member of the Sejm at once to investigate. Vincent Bartashevich, Demyan Khinevich. Stowbtsy.

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