Oppositionist Statkevich was detained in Minsk, who called for organizing a May Day demonstration

The opposition Belarusian politician Nikolai Statkevich, who called on his supporters to go on a demonstration of protest against President Alexander Lukashenko, was detained and sentenced to five days of administrative arrest, the Russian Air Force reports.

The politician stopped in touch the day before. His wife, Marina Adamovich, began the search, and on Saturday the employees of the Leninsky police department of Minsk reported his arrest.

The causes of administrative arrest are not reported, but the Center for the insulation of the offenders confirmed to relatives that Nikolai Statkevich was with them.

On Friday, Statkevich urged citizens to reach the October Square in the Center of Minsk on the International Day of Solidarity of the Workers, on May 1, and express a protest against the policy of the Belarusian authorities.

Nikolai Statkevich is an ardent critic of President Lukashenko, his opponent in the struggle for the presidential chair in the 2010 elections. He was arrested during the power to accelerate protest on the day of the presidential election on December 19, 2010 and was sentenced to six years of a colony of reinforced regime on charges of organizing riots. He was pardoned by Alexander Lukashenko in August 2015.

The Air Force recalls that a month earlier, at the end of March, Statkevich also ceased to communicate a few days before the demonstration of his will announced on March 25. He appeared at home on March 27 and stated that he was kept in the KGB pre -trial detention center.

On May 25, on the day of will, in the center of Minsk there were mass detention of the gathered citizens there.

Official May Day demonstrations in the Belarusian capital have not been held for more than 10 years. This year, the Minsk City Executive Committee allowed him to gather at a rally in a peoples' friendship of the Friendship Park (Bangalor Square).