Mass Arrests In Baranavichy: People Returning From Abroad Are Among The Detained

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In Baranavichy, law-enforcers came to the participants of the 2020 protests. Among those detained are those who temporarily left Belarus but returned to the country. The law-enforcers spoke about this in their Telegram channel, Euroradio reports.

During the searches, “prohibited items were discovered,” security officials say. They don't specify what they are talking about. In the published video, four people speak. One of them is an individual entrepreneur. According to him, he was “detained by police officers for events related to 2020.” Another man says that he “approached the fence behind which there were riot police,” but where and when this happened is not clear from the clipping of his words. A third person says that “obscene slogans were shouted at riot police officers.”

The law-enforcers did not specify how many people were detained during this raid.