About 100 people were detained during protests in Minsk on Sunday, December 20. This was reported in Telegram -channel of the Minsk police.
“Participants in unauthorized events were repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of unlawful actions, after which the most active persons were detained (about 100 citizens, in respect of whom a check is carried out under the current legislation),” the message says.
The police said that they continue to search for citizens who previously took part in protests and were not detained, as well as drivers who “for no reason” gave sound signals, “thereby violating the rules, and in some cases, creating an emergency situation for others road users “.
The Viasna Human Rights Center, not registered in Belarus, in turn informs about 67 detainees protesters in several cities across the country.
Earlier on December 20, the security forces pulled special equipment to the working residence of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on the eve of another protest action. Several dozen paddy wagons, armored personnel carriers equipped with the “Rubezh” complex, cars with barbed wire and minibuses for transporting security forces were seen on Saperov Street near the residence. In addition, reinforced trains of traffic police and police officers were on duty.
In Belarus, for the fifth month, mass protests continue after the presidential elections on August 9, according to which Alexander Lukashenko, who ran for the sixth term, received 80 percent of the vote. Protest actions are harshly suppressed by the security forces. Thousands of people were detained, many of them told about torture and beatings in isolation wards. It is known about those killed by the protesters.