At 5 am the police started a manhunt in the Belarusian city of Babruysk. In Minsk, human rights activist Tamara Syarhei has been arrested.
A protest action against unfair judgments was to have been held today in Freedom Square in Minsk. However, as the police pre-emptively arrested activists, the picket was thwarted – just a few people showed up.
Belsat.eu contacted Tamara Syarhei. At the moment, she is being kept in Tsentralny district police station, but no detention order has been issued.
„I will have a talk to them only after they give me this document. They took me here by force saying there is a complaint for consideration which I filed on May 16,” she said.
According to Tamara Sergei, when she was going out, she saw a police car and ten officers in uniform and in civilian clothes. The woman realized that they came for her, because early in the morning, at five o’clock, her friends were detained in Babruysk. They were about to participate in the picket in Minsk.
Meanwhile, 4 elderly women came to Freedom Square. One of them has been seeking to revoke a court decision on her daughter’s disability. According to her, it was the daughter’s husband working in the Presidential Administration who had a bearing on the judges.
“Today we would like to say that not only the delegates of the national Congress enjoy rights, so do we,” the pensioner told Belsat.eu.
As reported earlier, the Belarusian capital is now hosting the Belarusian National Congress.
ХМ, belsat.eu
