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Thu, 06/23/2011 - 08:16
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400 arrested in Belarus Revolution via Social Networks protest.
MINSK, June 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Belarussian police detained about
440-450 participants in the Revolution via Social Networks protest on
Wednesday evening, the country's Vesna human rights centre,
non-governmental Nasha Niva newspaper and some other media reported.
Human rights activists say that over 200 people were detained in
Minsk, including several newspaper and news agencies' reporters. They were
taken to police, but set free later on.
Witnesses say that the police and special services staff often
detained those who were not involved in the action, and very often they
were acting very cruelly.
The attempts to organise the Revolution via Social Networks protests
were undertaken not in Minsk only, but in all regional centres throughout
the country.
Over a month earlier, all social networks started distributing calls
to those opposing policies of President Alexander Lukashenko for
organising meetings every Wednesday night at central squares of cities and
keep silence in protests. The first actions did not gather many
participants, but the last two actions of silence featured quite many
people.
Belarussian law enforcement authorities consider these actions from
social networks as calling for unauthorised mass rallies violating the
order. Those responsible for participation in such meetings may be charged
with a fine, administrative arrest or even limitation of freedom.
Belarusian authorities will not permit any strikes or unauthorized
actions conjured up by the opposition, President Alexander Lukashenko said
on June 14 as he visited an agricultural enterprise in the Minsk region.
He indicated that the Minsk-based political oppositionists are making
appeals in social networks in the Internet to organize strikes and are
staging some public actions on the Polish-Belarusian border.
"I'll be watching and keeping an eye on their calls, and then at a
certain moment I'll hit - and will do it so fast they won't have time to
run across the border," Lukashenko said.
"They're organizing strikes because we don't let them to take fuel,
cigarettes and other goods to other countries dirt cheap," he said. "In
old days, these people would be called profiteers. Well, they really are."
Lukashenko said the best option for the profiteers would be to go and
work in the fields.
440-450 participants in the Revolution via Social Networks protest on
Wednesday evening, the country's Vesna human rights centre,
non-governmental Nasha Niva newspaper and some other media reported.
Human rights activists say that over 200 people were detained in
Minsk, including several newspaper and news agencies' reporters. They were
taken to police, but set free later on.
Witnesses say that the police and special services staff often
detained those who were not involved in the action, and very often they
were acting very cruelly.
The attempts to organise the Revolution via Social Networks protests
were undertaken not in Minsk only, but in all regional centres throughout
the country.
Over a month earlier, all social networks started distributing calls
to those opposing policies of President Alexander Lukashenko for
organising meetings every Wednesday night at central squares of cities and
keep silence in protests. The first actions did not gather many
participants, but the last two actions of silence featured quite many
people.
Belarussian law enforcement authorities consider these actions from
social networks as calling for unauthorised mass rallies violating the
order. Those responsible for participation in such meetings may be charged
with a fine, administrative arrest or even limitation of freedom.
Belarusian authorities will not permit any strikes or unauthorized
actions conjured up by the opposition, President Alexander Lukashenko said
on June 14 as he visited an agricultural enterprise in the Minsk region.
He indicated that the Minsk-based political oppositionists are making
appeals in social networks in the Internet to organize strikes and are
staging some public actions on the Polish-Belarusian border.
"I'll be watching and keeping an eye on their calls, and then at a
certain moment I'll hit - and will do it so fast they won't have time to
run across the border," Lukashenko said.
"They're organizing strikes because we don't let them to take fuel,
cigarettes and other goods to other countries dirt cheap," he said. "In
old days, these people would be called profiteers. Well, they really are."
Lukashenko said the best option for the profiteers would be to go and
work in the fields.
