The Ministry of Internal Affairs ( Ministry of Internal Affairs ) of Belarus has created a unified database of protest participants and opposition communities, reports the portal Tut.by.
The system will be loaded with data on gender, age, region of residence, place of work or study and hobbies of a person. It is planned to include participants and organizers of opposition actions, chat users and administrators of Telegram channels, whose content contradicts the position of the state, into the database.
“We have already made a huge push, one might say a breakthrough that allows these citizens to be installed,” said Deputy Interior Minister Yuri Nazarenko. It is noted that the system will automatically collect statistics on protesters and generate appropriate reports. The funds spent on the creation of this database are not specified.
According to the Belarusian human rights center “Spring” , the total number of people detained in the republic since the start of the protest actions on August 9 has exceeded 30 thousand. In November, the security forces detained more than 4,000 people.
Earlier, the ByPol Belarusian association, which deals with assistance to security officials who quit their jobs for supporting protesters, video with mockery of the detainees at the protests in the republic on 12 August. On it, law enforcement officers beat the demonstrators, force them to lick their batons and threaten with reprisals.
In Belarus, for the fifth month, mass protests continue after the presidential elections on August 9, according to which the candidate for the sixth term Alexander Lukashenko received 80 percent of the votes. 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.