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The list published on the Center’s website contains more than 580 surnames.
According to lawyers, most of these people are detained in Minsk. There were also arrests in Brest, Vitebsk, Magilia, Grodno, Maladecina, Žlobin, Kobryn and Babruysk.
Several detainees are members of the media. About 40 journalists and photographers have been detained, according to Viasna. Some of them were released from the militia after reviewing their documents, and more than 10 people were released overnight from Sunday to Monday.
Clashes between protesters and force officials continued in various parts of Minsk late into the night on Sunday. The protesters blocked roads and tried to build barricades.
To expel the protesters, OMON again used water cannons and carried out harsh arrests. Gunfire and explosions were heard, probably deafening grenades.
Over 400 detainees have been previously reported.
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 and western democracies consider these elections to be rigged.
Units of the special forces of the Belarusian militia OMON expelled the protesters from the center of the capital on Sunday night, but the 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.
To free the detainees, the protesters actively fought OMON, which used rubber sticks, and almost everything that fell into his hand flew at him from the crowd.
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.
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