Young Front Members detained and beaten up in central Minsk

On Saturday evening Zmitser Kramyanetski and Mikhail Muski were detained in Minsk.

They were arrested at 8.20 p.m. The young men were waiting for a train at Kupalayskaya metro station. As it turned out later, they were stopped for inspection because of “Young Front” cloth badge on his backpack. There was a white-red-white flag and a cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk on the cloth badge.

The activists were taken to the community police office in Kupalauskaya metro station. The young guys managed to inform that an inventory of their personal things was made, the press-service of Young Front informs.

Zmitser and Mikhail refused to be searched without attesting witnesses, but policemen Andrei Hnylyeda and Syarhei Charnou carried out a search forcibly.

Some major arrived to assistance, he did not have a mane badge, and refused to tell his name. Mikhail demanded to let him go to the WC. The major said he would not been allowed to go to the lavatory before the report drawn up. The major said they are to learn later about the charged against them.

When Mikhail tried to go to the lavatory himself, the major floored him and started to kick, and then handcuffed the young man to a battery.