Authorities Demolished Crosses In Kurapaty

(updated) In the run-up to Easter, the Kurapaty crosses were destroyed in Belarus.

“They have started to demolish the crosses in Kurapaty this morning. Vehicles are here,” – an eyewitness informed nn.by.

Journalists reported that the traffic police had blocked the entrances to Kurapaty, did not allow to stop near the scandalous Let's Go Get Some Eats restaurant. Technicians and workers could be seen from afar.

“The authorities have a spring fever: a technician guarded by unknown people in civilian clothes is demolishing the crosses in Kurapaty right now. Social activists urge people to go to the tract,” – the Basta Telegram channel added.

Radio Svaboda was live streaming from Kurapaty.

13.48 Activist Hanna Shaputska stated to reporters: “The demolishing of crosses in Kurapaty reveals today the inhuman, and even antihuman, essence of the current government. Who could come up with such an idea on the eve of the Easter holiday? It is clear who it was: our officials are not independent in their decisions and they work under one person, Lukashenka. They will share with him the responsibility for what happened today in Kurapaty.”

11.58 Most of the crosses from the Kurapaty perimeter have been taken out.

11:43 Nina Bahinskaya was detained once again when she was running to the crosses. The activist was brutally detained by five policemen. She was taken away in a bus with tinted windows.

11.39 A police colonel is trying to prevent journalists from covering the events in Kurapaty.

11.41 Nina Bahinskaya managed to break free.

11.30 Nina Bahinskaya was detained in Kurapaty.

11.28 The Young Front activist Philip Shaurou was detained in Kurapaty.

11.26 The activist Nina Bahinskaya came to Kurapaty to protect the crosses.

11.25 Social activist and former political prisoner Dzmitry Dashkevich detained in Kurapaty.

11.00 It became known that the police detained Dzianis Urbanovich, the Young Front leader, who was protesting against the actions of public utilities workers and the police officers in Kurapaty.

“By 10.30, 70 crosses were demolished in Kurapaty,” – Dzmitry Dashkevich, a social activist and former political prisoner, said.

The activist Dzmitry Kaspiarovich told Radio Svaboda that he came to Kurapaty, reached the Kurapaty hill, popularly known as Golgotha, but then the police officers stopped him there and did not let him go further. He saw the vehicles, plainclothes people and builders.

Kaspiarovich drove around Kurapaty and saw that about 100 crosses have already been demolished along the road around the perimeter of the territory. He thinks, those are the crosses that were standing at the place where the fence will be built.

10.19 One of the BCD leaders, Pavel Seviarynets, was detained in Kurapaty.

The politician came to the tract to prevent the demolition of the crosses. The video, which Pavel Seviarynets published on Facebook, shows how riot police officer approached the politician and detained him ordering “get into the car - quickly!”