Officials from Belarus and several allied countries (including Russia) tried on Friday to obstruct a video message from Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to the UN Human Rights Council, in which she called for the " Tikhanovskaya demanded " However, as soon as her short video message began broadcasting during the rarely convened urgent debates at the UN HRC, the Ambassador of Belarus Yuri Ambrazevich demanded that it be turned off.. He repeatedly interrupted the viewing, raising procedural objections and insisting that the words of Tikhanovskaya “have nothing to do with the merits of the case.. to the events that are happening today " His objections were dismissed by HRC President Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger of Austria, who argued that Tikhanovskaya's participation was appropriate in the context of an urgent debate on the rights situation in Belarus.. The all-day debate, organized at the request of the European Union, focuses on violations in Belarus, and in particular on the crackdown on unprecedented scale demonstrations that began in the country after the controversial elections on 9 August. Lukashenko, who warned of a possible " Meanwhile, his security forces detained thousands of protesters, many of whom accused police of beatings and torture.. Several people died during the dispersal. Tikhanovskaya, who took refuge in neighboring Lithuania, insists that the country's violation of its international obligations to respect “human dignity and fundamental human rights. means that the international community has the right to take the strongest possible action " “The scale and brutality of the regime’s broad measures clearly violate all international norms,” she said.. Many countries have sounded the alarm. “We have witnessed a brutal crackdown on peaceful protests,” German Representative Michael Freicher von Ungern-Sternberg said on behalf of the EU. He expressed concern about " Meanwhile, Ambassador of Minsk Ambrazevich criticized the " He insisted that the protesters used violence and injured many law enforcement officials. Ambrazevich and his colleagues from Russia, Venezuela and China also expressed numerous objections to the statements of the UN Deputy Head of Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif and Anais Marin, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of rights in Belarus, stating that they should not have taken part in the debate. More than 10,000 people were “illegally arrested for participating in peaceful protests,” more than 500 people were tortured by government officials, Marin said.. “I have been informed of allegations of rape, electric shocks and other forms of physical and psychological torture,” Marin told the video-linking council, adding that the perpetrators appear to be acting with “impunity.”.