In Belarus, detained the former presidential candidate Andrei Dmitriev. About this on Thursday, August 12, Telegram-channel of the Human Rights Center “Spring” said.
“Candidate of the presidents in the elections of 2020, Andrei Dmitriev, was detained this morning. At the moment, it is unknown, for what reason and what structure it is detained, and also where is”, – it is reported.
Presidential elections in Belarus took place on August 9, 2020. According to CEC, Dmitriev scored 1.21 percent of the vote, the operating head of state Alexander Lukashenko – 80 percent, the wife of the arrested opposition blogger Svetlana Tikhanovskaya – 10 percent.
Official results caused mass protests throughout the country that lasted for several months.
At the same time, two months before the vote, the ex-head of Belgazprombank Viktor Babariko, who gathered 400 thousand signatures in support of his nomination, was arrested on charges of the withdrawal of large sums abroad and later received 14 years in prison.
Another applicant for the presidential chair, the founder of the Park of High Technologies Valery Tspecklo left Belarus after the presets began against him.