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Protesters in Minsk went through a march to the church, where the security forces blocked people
Protesters in Minsk organized a procession from the Orthodox Holy Dukhov of the Cathedral on the Catholic Red Church on the Independence Square, Interfax reports. The action ended with detention.
About a thousand people with posters and flags gathered in the column. The drivers of passing cars were signaling with bundles as a sign of supporting protesters.
About 100 people were detained for a protest on Thursday. "97 people were detained today in Minsk during a peaceful protest campaign," the Vesna’s unregistered human rights center said.
The human rights center gives a list of detainees, among them are the names of journalists. According to human rights activists, the list of detainees is updated.
Prior to the start of the procession, more than a dozen journalists were detained in the area of Freedom Square. In addition, about 10 journalists were detained in Independence Square near the Red Church. The protesters were also delayed.
The protest organized on Thursday is due to the fact that on August 26, people were blocked by people in the Red Church on Independence in the Red Church. The actions of the security forces caused outrage among the leadership of the Catholic Church in Belarus. Metropolitan Minsko-Mogilev, Chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Belarus, Tadeusz Kondrusevich, called "inadequate and illegal" actions of law enforcement officers in the evening on Wednesday in the territory of the church of St. Simeon and St. Helena in Minsk and demanded an investigation.
Earlier on Thursday, TUT.BY journalists, Radio Liberty, Reuters, our Niva, AP, Belapan, Belsat, TASS were detained on Freedom Square.
Protest shares on August 26 and 27 ended with detention. On Thursday, law enforcement officers began to use force at about 19:30, TUT.BY reports. Before that, the underground crossings, which lead to Independence Square, were blocked by metal fences. Also, the security forces cordoned off the square and did not let out people: according to journalists, about a thousand people were surrounded. They were divided into two groups, and then the security forces began to be taken out of the crowd of young men and to be taken to a car zakak.
The security forces also approached journalists and demanded not to take off what was happening. Nine journalists, including Alexei Sudnikov (TUT.BY), Tatyana Korovenkova (Belapan), Alexander Boguslavskaya (DW), were actually detained. They were asked to turn off the phones. Then, the media workers said that they would be delivered "to the relevant internal affairs bodies, they will check the documents and let go."