
Protesters chanted "Shame on you!" and "Fascists" as police blocked roads leading to central Minsk, where the opposition supporters gathered to hold a march. According to Radio Liberty, riot police arrested dozens of people in Minsk. Belarusian Radio Liberty said, about 300 people have been detained today. Riot police arrested people in the center of Minsk in the areas of the Academy of Sciences, in the Yakub Kolas Square area, Kazlou Street, Masherau Avenue, and close to Surhanau Street, Kuzma Chorny Street, and Kalinin Square, Charter97 reports. Dozens of journalists have been among detainees. The video of a woman with a historical white-red-white flag of Belarus being detained in Minsk:СКОЛЬКО МЕНТОВ В МИНСКЕ! pic.twitter.com/BZ2FeTnMIu
— РБ головного мозга (@belamova) March 25, 2017
Зацягнулі ў аўтазак дзяўчыну з бчб сьцягам, першым сёньня. pic.twitter.com/VcyiMQB8fs
— Жывая Свабода (@svabodalive) March 25, 2017
The photographs show the Minsk rally and its crackdown today:People being detained in a very rough way here in Belarus's Minsk. "They will lead this to Ukraine," one tells me. pic.twitter.com/rSJwCOQOQY
— Ivan Nechepurenko (@INechepurenko) March 25, 2017
