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Minsk, 11 August 2020
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Minsk, 11 August 2020
TUT.BY. Policy / YouTube
Minsk, 11 August 2020
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The soldiers of internal troops started to arrest alleged participants of the protest action near the metro station “Pushkinskaya” in Minsk, the correspondent of RIA “news”. Belarusian law enforcers are patrolling the area and stopping suspicious persons. Sometimes law enforcement officers Jogging persecuted group of people. Passing motorists expressed outrage whistles.
People are watching what is happening, but the soldiers are trying to prevent them to gather in one place. In the center of the Belarusian capital has already pulled special equipment, including water cannons and paddy wagons. Several subway stations were closed, trains pass without stopping.
The traffic in the prospectuses of Winners and Masherova has not been stopped, but law enforcement agencies monitor all pedestrian roads and squares around it. Security officials check the documents and examine things from passers-by. Also on Prospekt Masherova delay cyclists, RBC.
To the sports Palace, located in the same area, has brought a large number of machinery.
A few people knelt in front of the soldiers of internal troops confronting protesters near the metro station “Pushkinskaya”, reports “Belsat”. They ask the military, how much they were paid for their participation in the crackdown on the protests, and persuaded not to use violence.
Telegram-Live NEXTA channel has published a video of a witness from the Minsk district Uruchcha, where the traffic police stopped several bikers savagely beaten lying beside motorcycles with batons and hands. The police do not pay attention to the screams from the other side of the street, and at the end of the video one of the employees, apparently, directs the weapon towards the beeping machine that passes by.
Tut.by reports that near the market “Rakowski Kirmash” in the West of the capital city are a few minibuses from which came the security forces and by force detained people. Near the metro station “Pushkinskaya”, where people gathered in memory of the deceased on August 10 protest, law enforcement officers in helmets and with shields require the citizens to disperse.
According to the newspaper, the protests are in the Gomel, Brest and Vitebsk. In the latter two cities, the security forces detained citizens.
The BBC Russian service reports that in Minsk, the security forces attacked the crew of channel of the three journalists, and all had accreditation issued by the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. The journalists were the identification vests and identities.
Several men in black uniforms unmarked first asked to show accreditation, then one of them plucked the card from the neck of the reporter, he pulled out his camera and tried to break her.While journalists were detained.
According to the Belarusian edition of the Onliner, near the French Embassy in Minsk by the use of force detained its journalists – Bild-editor Vladislav Borisovich and videocontent Sergey Ptushko. Staff Onliner tried to photograph and videotape police cars Hummer, but they ran out of white cars men in black and in balaclavas.
People in Minsk are persecuted right up to the entrances of #Minsk #Belarus pic.twitter.com/V20n0zto0Z— BelarusONfire (@belarus_o) August 11, 2020
The people of Belarus went on a mass unsanctioned rally on Sunday and Monday. Protesters unhappy with the outcome of the election, in which incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko is leading with a wide margin, according to the CEC. According to official data, incumbent President gaining 80,08%, the second place – Svetlana Tikhanovski from 10.09%.
In its staff declared they did not recognize the results of the CEC: according to the policy, data from sites in all districts of the Republic show that she scored 70-80%. On Tuesday morning it became known that Tikhanovski was forced to leave Belarus and go to Lithuania.
To disperse the protesters, Riot police used stun grenades and tear gas, and rubber bullets.
During protests and clashes with security forces injured hundreds of people, some of them were taken to the hospital. The most complicated situation in the capital, where one of the protesters died, more than 200 people were hospitalized. Security forces detained around three thousand people, criminal cases on mass riots and using force against law enforcement officers. To defendants threatens from eight till 15 years of imprisonment.
The incident with the death of the demonstrator occurred on pritytsky street (intersects with Prospekt Pushkina) at about 23:00 on Monday. According to authorities, the man intended to throw at law enforcement officials unidentified explosive device. However, it exploded in his hands. The protesters say that the man blew the commandos, throwing him a flash-Bang grenade.
The Belarusian authorities persistently looking for the proof that the protests were orchestrated from abroad. So, the Belarusian ONT TV channel showed a video which stated that the security forces detained the car of the organizers of the riots.
It was about the Ford Transit minibus with Russian license plates 750-series (Moscow region). It found “ammunition, tents and other items for organizing the riots”.
Leading Belarusian the Twitter account of “Tea Varennes” ran the license plate on the website PlatesMania.com (there are collecting license plates from all over the world) and found this Ford first photographed in Minsk on 25 Oct 2015.
“Russian service BBC” managed to track down the owner of the car. The minibus belongs to film producer from Moscow Valdemar Grabovo. “Six months is already there, we were there filming the series for the TVC channel. There tents, kettles and other things needed for the crew”, – said the producer. According to Grubov, he’d be happy to pick up the van, but because of the pandemic could not do it.