Protests against Lukashenko: double Swiss citizen arrested in Belarus – News

• Last Saturday, a double Swiss-Belarusian citizen was arrested in Belarus.
• The Swiss embassy in Minsk is in contact with the local authorities and the family on the spot.

At the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs (EDA) confirmed a corresponding article in the “St. Galler Tagblatts ». The FDFA is not authorized to provide further information for personal and data protection reasons. According to the Saturday edition of the newspaper, it is a woman from St. Gallen who participated in the women’s demonstration last Saturday.

More than 300 arrests

According to information from human rights organizations, on September 19 women made more than 300 arrests against the Head of State Alexander Lukashenko. The civil rights portal spring96.org published the names of 314 women who were arrested during the action in the capital, Minsk.

Since the presidential elections on August 9, there have been daily protests in Belarus. Lukashenko had again been declared the winner of the elections after 26 years in office with 80.1 percent of the vote. The opposition, however, considers Svetlana Tichanowskaya to be the real winner.

The FDFA stated that it had already expressed concern about the tense situation after the controversial presidential elections. Authorities have repeatedly been unequivocally called upon to respect human rights obligations, allow peaceful demonstrations, and release detained protesters, according to the FDFA.