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“We can report that so far only in Minsk [administracinėn] around 3,000 were prosecuted. people. For administrative use only. Of these, two-thirds were, as a general rule, sentenced to arrest, and the rest [daugiau kaip 1 tūkst. žmonių] received administrative fines pursuant to article 23.34 [masinių renginių organizavimo ar rengimo tvarkos pažeidimas]”O. Lavruchin said in an interview broadcast on STV television on Sunday.
The prosecutor noted that in case of “greater danger to society”, the participants in the riots would also be subject to criminal responsibility.
“Today, the pre-trial investigative institutions of the city of Minsk are handling around 250 criminal cases. They relate to both participation in massive law enforcement violations and similar violations related to resistance to police officers and threat of violence against police officers, “said O. Lavruchin.
According to him, these are mainly cases related to the suspension of public transport.
“So far, 275 people have been identified for committing these crimes. The total damage in these criminal cases amounts to about 260 thousand. Belarusian rubles (about 85 thousand euros) “, said O. Lavruchin.
“It just came to our attention then. The process continues, of course, this amount is likely to increase,” added the prosecutor.
Protests against the results of the presidential elections on August 9 have been held in Belarus for more than two months. The winner has been the current head of state, Alexander Lukashenko, who has held this position since 1994.
The opposition did not recognize the electoral results announced by the authorities and considers them manipulated.
The protesters were arrested on Sunday
Units of the special forces of the Belarusian militia OMON expelled the protesters from the center of the capital on Sunday night, but the unauthorized protests immediately moved to the entrances of the Pushkinkaya metro station.
According to witnesses, several thousand people gathered there despite the heavy rains. To expel them, OMON again used water cannons and carried out abrupt arrests. Most likely, gunshots and explosions will be heard – sound grenades.
To free the detainees, protesters are actively dealing with OMON, which uses rubber sticks, and almost anything falls from the crowd flying towards it.
At the same time, OMON began to “comb” all the nearby courtyards, looking for participants in the protests.
Opposition protests in Minsk on Sunday re-recorded the arrests of journalists. According to the portal tut.by, among the detainees are the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Naša Niva Jegoras Martinovičius and the photographer Nadežda Bužan. Several Red Cross volunteers have also reportedly been detained.
At least 250 protesters were arrested in Belarus on Sunday, the Viasna human rights center said.
A list of the names of the detained protesters is posted on the Center’s website and is constantly updated.
According to human rights defenders, the arrests were recorded in the capital Minsk and in other major cities of the country: Brest, Vitebsk, Mogilev, Grodno, Molodechno, Žlobin, Kobrin, Bobruisk.
According to Viasna, on October 11, some 40 journalists and photojournalists from various media outlets were arrested in the country. Some of them have already run.
Belarus has been waging massive protests for more than two months over the presidential elections on August 9, announced by Aliaksandr Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and western democracies consider these elections rigged.
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