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High-profile arrest in Minsk: fresh details

The purpose of detention was not to allow representatives of human rights organizations on the March will

In Minsk released the detainees informed human rights defenders. 57 people were detained preventively, human rights activists would not allow the March. This said one of the detained activists, the citizen of Belarus Evgenia andreyuk, who lives in Kiev.

“We are in Minsk, continue to work. Watch from the point of view of human rights. At 12:00 we had a meeting in the center “Spring”, a large international team. All of us were detained preventively for three hours, so we got to share and see what happens. We were released at about 15:15, but the goal that we got to share was achieved. We were not allowed to call, was not protocols, but it was tolerated,” said andreyuk.

At the same time, according to human rights activist, the detainees are in the police Department and detention: “Detention was hard, they were beaten and searched. Probably today or tomorrow will the courts, but the city is already quietly.”

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