In Belarus, several dozen people were detained after the “March of Non-Parasites”

In several cities of Belarus, after the next "March of the Neteagers", several dozen participants in the actions were detained.

In Minsk, according to TUT.BY with reference to human rights activists, about 40 people were detained. The unregistered human rights center "Viasna" reports about the detention of eight people after the action in Mogilev and several people in Grodno.

In Minsk, several people whom TUT.BY calls anarchists were detained in a trolleybus; Viasna tweeted that tear gas was used during the arrest, as a result of which “ordinary passengers also suffered.”

Judging by the video published on the Internet, people in civilian clothes were engaged in the detention.

• The "non-parasite marches" began in Belarus shortly before February 20, 2017 - until that day, about 470 thousand citizens of the country had to pay a fee known as the "parasitism tax" in the amount of about 360 Belarusian rubles (11 thousand Russian rubles). The fee was introduced in 2015 by President Alexander Lukashenko for those who officially worked less than six months a year.
• On March 9, Lukashenka postponed the payment of the “parasitism tax” for a year. He promised that the tax decree would be amended but not repealed. On the same day, he demanded that by May 1 there should be no unemployed in the country.