Detention at the very end of the stream
Belsat TV contributors Volha Davydava and Lyubou Luniova were detained in Minsk.
The women were present at the meeting for journalists held by activist Nasta Dashkevich whose husband was arrested a few hours earlier. Then they went to Leninski district police department, where, according to preliminary information, arrestees Zmitser Dashkevich and Artsyom Leuvchanka might be kept. The journalists and Nasta Dashkevich were detained for ‘filming in a security facility’, their smartfones were seized. At that, Lyubou Luniova did not even had a telephone in her hands.
(UPD) After searching and interrogating, the police released them.
The Belarusian authorities have apparently decided to neutralize Belarusian activists and journalists in the run-up of the Freedom Day march on March 25. Moreover, brutal arrest of the people for unknown reasons began after Lukashenka’s statement that gunmen with weapons who were preparing a provocation had been detained in Belarus.
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In February-March, there has been an eruption of protesting the so-called ‘parasite’ law in Belarus. About 200 Belarusians have been detained, fined, jailed after recent non-parasite marches. Last week, trials of participants were held in Minsk, Hrodna and Mahiliou. Most of them were accused of violating the order of holding mass events and disobedience to police officers’ demands. It should be noted that plainclothes policemen who refuse to show their IDs a or introduce themselves often beat people and prevented journalists from performing their professional duties.
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