Employees of the State Security Committee of Belarus are holding the 15-year-old brother of the administrator of the telegram channel “Live. The Community of Railway Workers of Belarus,” they say in the community itself.
“Terrorists ( KGB of Belarus. - ed. ) put forward a demand to remove the telegram channel and stop its activities,” the community publication says.
It is alleged that the teenager was detained in a fabricated criminal case on extortion (part 2 of article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). He was held for three days in a temporary detention center on Akrestsina in Minsk and his parents and lawyer were not allowed to see him, the community said.
Relatives of the young man have no information about what happened to him all this time.
On Friday, he was transferred to the "Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health", where he is still located, they write in the telegram channel.
The charges were not dropped from the teenager, and they also took a written undertaking not to leave the 15-year-old boy.
The post about the arrest of the brother of the administrator of the "Community of Railway Workers" was also published by the telegram channel "Belarusian Gayun" and asked to distribute this information.
The "Community of Railway Workers of Belarus" publishes information about military trains that run between the republic and the Russian Federation. On March 23, the Telegram channel was recognized as a terrorist organization.
"Belarusian Gayun" publishes information about the movement of military equipment in Belarus. He was also recognized as an extremist in March.