Freedom Day in Minsk (photo)
The action was allowed by the city authorities. The participants gathered near the cinema house October.
20:35 Maxim Vinyarski, Syarhei Maskoi, Alena Lazarchyk and Vlad Barodka have been detained in a yard in Bahdanovich Street. They will be delivered to the Soviet District Department of the Interior, @viasna96 reports. Activist of Eurobelarus Leanid Kulakou has also been detained.
20:20 The meeting is over. Half the people didn’t even have time to go through the metal detectors.
19:45 The column has reached Bangalore Square. People are going through metal detectors to enter the fenced territory.
18:40 The column is heading for Surhanau Street.
18:30 People are forming a column to head for Bangalore Square. Yellow-blue bands are being given out to express solidarity with Ukraine.
18:10 About 2 thousand people have gathered near the Academy of Sciences. The territory in front of the cinema house is full.
18:00 The ground in Bangalore Square is hedged but the police have not arrived yet. There are no metal detectors either.
17:55 People are gathering near the Academy of Sciences. About 300 participants have already arrived.
The column will walk to the Park of Peoples’ Friendship. A meeting will be held there from 7.30 p.m. until 8 p.m.
