Homonopoly for power

In Minsk, the mass detention of the participants in the action on the day of will passed, reports Naviny.by. Demonstrators were dragged by force into autozaki. The score of the detainees is hundreds.

The action was supposed to begin at the building of the Academy of Sciences. For people who approached there, police officers checked the documents and delayed. More than a dozen police officers attacked a poster who tried to get a poster.

A large number of police equipment were pulled into the city center, including wateringles. The Square of Yakub Kolas was numb by security forces, all the adjacent streets were also on the Independence Avenue of Independence. There were several hundred people between the cordons. They were also brought to autozaki.

At least one clash occurred. People tried to break through the cordon, but they were not allowed to do this. The rifle lines squeezed out people towards Victory Square. There were about two thousand participants in the action. Police used batons.

Before the intersection of Independence Avenue with Kozlov Street, a column of about a thousand people reached. They chanted "Live Belarus!" and "freedom". The detentions continued here. The police grabbed the first, including random pedestrians.

At least 25 Belarusian and foreign journalists who illuminated the action were detained. At the same time, police ignored the presented press cards and other documents and delivered media representatives to the RUVD. From there, some of the journalists were released, but at least six people remain in police departments in Minsk, three in Brest and one in Gomel.

Shortly before the start of the action, OMON employees broke into the public reception center "Vesna". They detained all 57 people who were there, including international observers and journalists. Later, all the detainees in the Office of Vesna were released from the police department.

Opposition shares dedicated to the Day of will also took place in Gomel, Vitebsk, Grodno and Brest. In the last two cities alone, the shares were agreed by the authorities.

The day before, the chairman of the capital's executive committee Andrei Shorets said that any street shares on March 25 in Minsk would be illegal. 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.

On Saturday night in Brest, one of the leaders of the Belarusian National Congress Vladimir Neklyaev was detained. 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 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.