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In Minsk, the "marriage of people's vessels" was dispersed. More than 500 detainees
On Sunday in Minsk, the opposition "march of democracy" takes place. Even before the start of protests in the city center, security measures were strengthened.
Participants in the action planned to gather in the area of Square of Freedom, but law enforcement officers cordoned off almost the entire quarter in the area of Prospekt Pobedelov, Melnikayat and Zaslavlskaya streets, as well as Masherov Avenue and conducted a number of detentions there, TASS reports.
The bulk of the protesters managed to gather in the area of the stele "Minsk - Hero City", but the security forces dispersed them. It is known about the detentions in this area.
According to a correspondent of the Russian agency, law enforcement officers met a column of several thousand protesters, which was heading along Bogdanovich Street to the city center. It was formed near the White Vezha casino from the demonstrators, whom the security forces previously ousted from Masherov Avenue. In the area of the Bolshoi Theater, overclocking began, people scattered around the yards. On Nemiga Street near the Minsk Cathedral, where there was also a column of several hundred people, mass detentions passed.
The number of opposition protests detained on inconsistent protests on Sunday in Minsk exceeded 500 people, the Vesna Human Rights Assembler, unregistered in the republic.
The first point detentions in the capital began at about 12:00. According to human rights activists, they took place not only in Minsk. It is known about the detainees in Lyakhovichi and Gomel.
Law enforcement officers confirmed that they are conducting detentions in Minsk, people are taken to territorial police department. This was announced by TASS by the official representative of the Main Directorate of the Minsk City Executive Committee Natalya Ganusevich.
"The action is unauthorized, some of its participants are delivered to the territorial police department," Ganusevich said. According to her, we are talking about about ten detainees, there is no information that there are no journalists among them. However, according to TASS correspondent Yuri Shamshur, his and his colleague from another Russian media was delivered to the RUVD to verify documents, after which they released.