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.