
On Saturday night in Brest, one of the leaders of the Belarusian National Congress Vladimir Neklyaev was detained, Belapan reports . It is located in the temporary detention center of the Brest police department.
Neklyaev returned by train from Warsaw to Minsk. He participated in the discussion on the situation in Belarus in the Polish Sejm. It was expected that Neklyaev would arrive in Minsk in the evening. At the airport, police officers and security forces in civilian clothes were waiting for him.
On Friday, the Leninsky district of Minsk was supposed to consider Neklyaev’s administrative case on the fact of his participation in the unauthorized “Netuneyadsev march” on February 17. He himself planned to come on Saturday for a promotion on the day of will. “They can, of course,“ neutralize. ”But no one will hide from this (as many advise), nobody will run through the forests of partisans,” Neklyaev said on Wednesday. “Just in the case of“ neutralization ”, leadership and responsibility for holding a will of will will be taken over. They know what to do, how to act.”
In Minsk and other cities of Belarus, the detention of activists continues. In Mogilev, the police detained Alexander fear, in Gomel - Boris Anikeev. Ales Evseenko, a member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, sentenced the court to three days of arrest for "petty hooliganism." The Court of the Oktyabrsky district of Minsk arrested for five days the Mogilev activist of the organizing committee to create the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People’s Gramad) Stanislav Pavlinkovich.
Any street actions on March 25 in Minsk will be illegal, said the chairman of the capital's executive committee Andrei Shorets. The internal affairs bodies of Belarus have been transferred to an enhanced version of the service, said Konstantin Shalkevich, head of the information and public relations department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On Saturday morning, Oktyabrskaya Square in Minsk was patrolled by OMON employees with automatic weapons.
Over the past few weeks, more than 260 people have been detained in Belarus. Basically, these are participants in peaceful actions against decree No. 3 "On the prevention of social dependency", which took place in different cities since February 17.
On Thursday, the KGB of Belarus opened a criminal case under the article on participation in the riots against the detained 26 activists of the White Legion and the Young Front. The Belarusian special services claim that the detainees planned an attempt to a coup with the support of "militants from Ukraine."
On March 25, a large action is planned in Minsk demanding a complete cancellation of the decree on the "Tunejadism tax" , as well as the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko. The organizers urge it to take part in it of both capital residents and citizens from the regions. The next day, on the 26th, protests are supposed to begin throughout the country.
On Tuesday, Lukashenko spoke about the detention of dozens of armed militants who were preparing a provocation . One of the camps in which the militants trained was, according to the president, in the Bobruisk area and Osipovichi in the Mogilev region. “The rest of the camps are in Ukraine,” said Lukashenko. “In my opinion, in Lithuania or in Poland - I will not say, but somewhere there. Money went through Poland and Lithuania to us.”
The inconsistent mass shares against the decree since mid -February have been held throughout the country . These were the largest protests in Belarus since 2010. Demonstrations in Minsk, Gomel and Brest gathered several thousand participants.
On March 9, Lukashenko announced the suspension of the decree until the end of this year. Meanwhile, already earlier, from the 3rd day, the security forces began to detain the protesters. In particular, on March 15, demonstrators were detained in Minsk, Mogilev and Grodno. In addition, administrative affairs are also fabricated against participants in the February shares.