About 30 anarchists were detained by men in plain clothes on Kharuzhei street after the non-parasite march.
The police station they were taken is not known.
The detentions were brutal. Anarchists managed to catch the trolley bus number 37, but at the next stop the trolley bus got blocked by four minibus. Plainclothed men rushed into the trolley and began detaining activists.
Belsat.eu journalist Lyubou Luniova witnessed the arrest. She said that the girls from the trolleybus were grabbed by the hair, dragged on the pavement, on the curbs. The activists were grabbed and thrown into vans.
People were trying to protect the young men. The riot policemen responded by smashing the mobile phones of the people who tried to film the brutal detention and upload the videos.
Unmarked police beating people on the bus
Unmarked police beating people on the bus
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According to the spring96.org site, tear gas was used during the arrest of the anarchists. Regular passengers were affected by the gas.
Before getting on a trolley bus near the McDonalds on Bangalore Square, anarchists asked the people to walk them. People agreed and walked them to the stop joining hands.
The anarchists participated in a permitted rally against the decree #3 in Minsk. At the beginning of the protest, they were several times approached by the uniformed police and asked to remove the masks. During the procession, their group was followed by people with walkie-talkies.It is known that the detained anarchists were from the group called ‘Pramen’.