Lukashenko admits to BBC that protesters have been beaten, but there is complaint

Belarus's authoritarian president, Aleksandar Lukashenko, has admitted in an interview for BBC television that a ban centre in his country has been beaten by protesters at a detention centre, but has added that police officers have also been beaten, charging that they did not show it.

He also said it is “obsolutely possible” that Belarusian forces have helped foreign immigrants enter Poland, but has denied that they were invited, writes BBC, broadcast the Express newspaper.

In a rare interview for British public broadcaster Lukashenko said: “We are Slavs. We have hearts. Our soldiers know immigrants will go to Germany. Maybe someone helped them. I'm not even gonna look at this. ”

I told them ( The EU will not stop immigrants at the border, keep them at the border, and if they continue to come from now on, I will still not stop them, because they are not coming to my country, they are coming to your places, but I have not invited them here and, to be honest, I do not want them to pass through Belarus”, Lukashenko said.

The politician known for his close reports with Russia's Putin has been in power since the end of 1994. His re-election as president last year has been highly criticised by the West because of allegations of election abuses and has not been recognised by the EU.