Zmitser Uladzimiravich Balaba

Number of repressed:

2

Birthday:

1 june 1972

Chief of the Special Police Unit of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee, police colonel. Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Dmitry Vladimirovich Balaba is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repression. In 2016, he became Chief of the OMON. From that point on, he oversaw the dispersal of protests and the arrest of opposition members. He was personally present at all protests. He frequently threatened activists and ordered his subordinates to commit violent acts against specific individuals. On August 9, 2020, he commanded all OMON actions. His soldiers participated in the murder of Roman Bondarenko. On August 10, 2020, at approximately 2:30 a.m., a man was detained at 8 V. Khoruzhey Street in Minsk by unidentified officers of the OMON GUVD of the Minsk City Executive Committee, led by D.V. Balaba, who inflicted a gunshot wound on him and tortured him during his transfer to the local police department, as well as on the premises of the Zavodskoy RUVD building in Minsk at 8 V. Khoruzhey Street. Kabushkina 36. Unidentified police officers from the 1st Platoon, 6th Company, of the Special Purpose Mobile Unit (OMON) of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee (identification badge "761"), while on duty on August 10, 2020, acting in excess of their official authority, at approximately 7:30 PM, unjustifiably detained a protester and a group of other citizens in Victory Park in Minsk. They then tortured them in a special vehicle and, together with officers from the temporary detention facility of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee (Minsk, 1st Okrestina Lane, 36A), on the premises of the detention facility where the detainees were taken and held until August 12, 2020. These actions were committed on the orders of Police Colonel Dmitry Vladimirovich Balaba, OMON Commander of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee.