Belarusian police detained the temporary head of the EU diplomatic mission in Minsk, Evelina Schultz, for more than two hours, Voice of America reports..

The European Union condemned the detention of its high-ranking diplomat, calling the detention "

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Evelina Shults was present on Tuesday at a court session in Minsk, where the verdict on ten Belarusian activists was announced. After the hearing, when Schultz was already leaving the courtroom, she was detained by the Belarusian police for more than two hours..

“The illegal detention of a diplomat is a serious violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations… and undermines the security of the presence of diplomats in Belarus,” said Peter Stano, spokesman for the European External Action Service (EEAS)..

The EEAS announced that it had called the charge d'affaires of Belarus in Brussels for clarification.

According to the Belarusian edition “Charter’97”, during the detention, Schulz repeatedly made it clear that she had diplomatic immunity, and showed the police a diplomatic card and a diplomatic passport.. According to Schultz, while reading the protocol, she was filmed on a video camera..

On September 6, 10 Belarusian activists were sentenced, including human rights activist Marfa Rabkova. Human rights organization "

The European External Action Service called these sentences unnecessarily harsh.