During the day, about 1000 people were detained throughout the country. Most of them were detained in the capital - Minsk.
It also became known that among those detained at mass protests against the Lukashenka regime there are scientists and journalists well-known in Belarus.. One of them is Pavel Moiseev, Candidate of Medical Sciences, as well as a doctor of the highest qualification category Andrey Poluyanchik..
It should be noted that the detentions took place in Gomel, Grodno, Vitebsk, Novogrudok, Bobruisk, Pinsk, Svetlogorsk.
Earlier it was reported that President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko spoke out categorically about the holding of another election in the country.