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Tut. By announces that military equipment, including buses to transport detainees, were deployed this morning in Minsk’s Independence Square. Around noon, the arrests of people who were going out to protest in different parts of the capital began. Protesters cannot enter the city center.
According to the Viasna Human Rights Center, 18 people have already been arrested.
“So far, the center has informed about 18 detainees,” human rights defenders told Interfax.
The Minsk militia previously announced around 10 detainees, and observers spoke of 50 detainees.
VIDEO: A heroic march in Minsk
Arrests continue: law enforcement officers are currently detaining protesters who have taken refuge in the Galereja shopping center, where one of their largest groups has gathered.
Meanwhile, protesters who escaped arrest are heading toward Plaza de la Independencia in the center of the city.
People try not to spread out on the streets and go in larger groups.
Observers report that the number of participants in the protest is increasing and, by some estimates, some 10,000 people have already gathered. persons.
Before this protest, security measures were significantly tightened in the Belarusian capital with the help of the military.
VIDEO: Heroes march in Minsk on September 13
Militiamen and soldiers, among other things, surrounded the main squares in the center of the city. For example, the Plaza de Octubre is fenced off with barbed wire. The square next to the Museum of the Great Patriotic War on the stele “Minsk – the hero of the city” was surrounded by soldiers in bulletproof vests and helmets and armed with Kalashnikovs.
In central Minsk, the operation of the metro was restricted and some stations were closed.
Pasak tut.by, Protests are also taking place in Žodzín, Grodno, Vitebsk, Brest.
This is the fifth Sunday in a row that thousands of people take to the streets across Belarus. It is estimated that more than 100,000 people gathered in Minsk last Sunday alone. protesters.
The protests in Belarus have continued since August 9, when authorities announced that the country’s presidential elections had been won by a wide margin by leader Alexander Lukashenko.
Despite the crackdown, more than 100,000 people took to the streets in Minsk on Sundays last month. people, protests are also taking place in other Belarusian cities.
More than 7,000 have been arrested since the protests began. persons. Those who have left the detention centers and the doctors who treat them speak of torture.
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