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SHORT TITLE:
BELARUS: REPRESSION
LONG TITLE:
Belarussian indymedia activists call for solidarity!
PHOTO:
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ABSTRACT:
This morning, 24 March 2006, Belarussian indymedia activists in Minsk distributed information, that last night 3:30 AM OMON moved to destroy the tent camp that has been put up in the city center to protest fraud in the elections in Belarus. 30-40 tents were trashed, around 500 people arrested. Among destroyed tents there was a tent of
Belarussian Indymedia,
and among the arrested there were many
radical activists, such as members of the anarcho-punk band Deviation
(singer Stas Pochyobut) and editors of the banned satirical anarchist
paper Navinki. The people who were arrested were heavily brutalized.
As all the
police stations in the city are full of people arrested during the
last 10 days (opposition estimates number of people arrested all around
Belarus as 5000), the people arrested in the October Square were
taken to unknown
destinations off the city limits. Their place, condition and charges
pressed against them are currently unknown.
Belarussian activists also
ask for any kind of solidarity actions in
[2] around the world!
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