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“A few days ago, they tried to carry out explosions and arson in the capital and other cities,” Swede said.
According to him, the testimony of the organizers and participants of the terrorist attack was given by “a citizen Maleičuks, who was detained with all the evidence”.
March 26 in Belarus Ministry of the Interior press service on your channel in the app “Telegram“reported on two prevented terrorist attacks – in Minsk and Minsk district Borisov district army town of Pecs.
According to the ministry, a 35-year-old resident of the Pinsk district made two explosives.
He placed one of them in a rubbish bin next to a children’s playground in Minsk, and took the other by car to the Borisov district, where he was detained “at the time of the crime,” the statement said.
The detained man “has been prosecuted several times in the past, has been an active participant in the protest movement and has regularly attended” Sunday marches “since last summer,” the ministry’s press service said.
The detainee has been in contact with the BYPOL initiative and has received “instructions to conduct an explosion in the interior or army formation area” from its representative before the Freedom Day on March 25, the media said.
In Belarus, after the August 9 presidential election, a widespread protest movement began against the falsification of the presidential election and authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
Weekly protests lasted for months and sometimes gathered as many as 100,000 people, raising hopes that Lukashenko’s power in the country would begin to disappear.
Authorities detained thousands of protesters, many of whom testified to torture. The scope of the protests began to wane.
Several protesters lost their lives and more than 400 protesters were sentenced to severe prison terms.
The opposition urged supporters this month to resume protests on city streets on March 25, marking Belarus’s declaration of independence in 1918, and on Saturday, March 27.
According to the data of the Belarusian human rights organization “Vyasna”, 45 people were detained in protests on March 25, and 245 people on March 27.
The opposition is demanding the removal of Lukashenko from power, the release of political prisoners and the holding of new elections.
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