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“Several people are currently detained and taken to various territorial units for further investigation,” he said.
Witnesses told the Interfax news agency that law enforcement officers were seriously detaining protesters and clashes were reported.
According to their story, officials used pepper spray and protesters threw bottles and pots at them.
About 50 people were arrested during these clashes.
According to witnesses, the clashes between militias and opposition supporters took place near the stele “Minsk: a hero of the city”.
Several people were injured in civilian clothes, some received first aid from law enforcement officers and doctors.
More than 20 journalists have already been arrested during the protests, the country’s journalists’ association said on Sunday.
“Currently, 17 journalists have been detained in Minsk, four in Grodno and two in Vitebsk,” the Belarusian Association of Journalists told the Telegram correspondence platform.
According to Viasna, an unregistered police center in the country, those detained include Belarusian and Russian media workers, including state-owned workers.
Natalia Hanusevich, a spokeswoman for the Interior Steering Board of the Minsk City Executive Committee, told the Interfax news agency earlier that journalists detained in the capital had been taken to the district’s interior department to verify documents.
At that moment the portal tut.by reports that some journalists were not released after reviewing the documents.
“It allowed us to go out to smoke, here we are, breathing fresh air. When asked how long we will be detained, an employee of the district’s interior department said: “We are waiting.” He did not explain the order or anything else, ”the detained journalists told the portal.
Belarus has been organizing massive protests against the results of the presidential elections on August 9 for more than two months. The current president, Lukashenko, who has held this position since 1994, was officially declared the winner of the elections.
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