MINSK, Oct 31 Six Minsk residents detained for hanging on a pole power lines of the flag of Ukraine and the white-red-white flag (a symbol of the Belarusian opposition — ed.), the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.
«Six Minsk residents were detained for a protest action. hung out a canvas of white-red-white colors and the flag of Ukraine. During the operational-search activities, police officers detained six Minsk residents aged 34 to 36 years,» the ministry's Telegram channel said in a statement published on Monday.
As noted in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, according to the defendants, they made the decision to hold a protest action jointly. One of the men took a photo of the result and sent the image to be posted on extremist online communities. «It has been established that the detainees were members of illegal telegram channels, communicated in district chat rooms, and participated in protest actions in 2020,» the report says.
Investigators opened a criminal case for malicious hooliganism, informed MIA.