In Minsk, a physical education teacher of the Belarusian State University (BSU) Kirill Dolgorukov was imprisoned for 13 days because he “mentally supported the protest” on the streets of the city, writes Tut.by .
As the arrested person told the portal, the incident occurred on November 30, when he decided to go to the store. At this time, two large columns of demonstrators were passing through the microdistrict. Later, the police drove up to the place of protest and began to harshly detain the protesters. “At some point, the security forces ran up to me. They said:” Come here, “I approached, they put me in a paddy wagon,” the teacher explained.
According to him, the police drew up protocols of the same type for all protesters. The man was asked to read the document and explain what he disagrees with. In response, the detainee indicated that he only partially agreed with the statement of the situation, since he “did not take an active part in the march, but mentally supported the protesters.”
The next day, the man was summoned to the capital’s Pervomaisky district court. At the meeting, the Belarusian did not admit his guilt and tried to explain what had happened. “After listening to me, the judge said: therefore, you are guilty – and appointed me 13 days,” Dolgorukov said. His lawyer filed a complaint against this decision, but it was ignored.
As the newspaper notes, the case of a physical education teacher received a resonance throughout Belarus. Memes on the topic of “mental protest” began to circulate on social networks, and several popular bloggers decided to talk about what happened on their YouTube channels.
Earlier, a resident of Minsk who supports the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko decided to hand over their children to the police because they painted their home curtains in white red and white color to support protesters Belarusians. The arriving security officials regarded the act of the household as a single picket, but later the conflict was settled.
In Belarus, for the fifth month, mass protests continue, which began after the presidential elections on August 9. According to official results, Lukashenko, who ran for a sixth term, received 80 percent of the vote. The opposition considers the elections to be rigged.