According to Belarussian indymedia activists in Minsk, last night (24
March, 2006) at 3:30 AM,
OMON moved to destroy
the tent camp that had been put up in the city center to protest
fraud in the Belarussian elections. 30-40 tents were trashed and
around 500 people
arrested. Among the destroyed tents was a
Belarussian Indymedia tent, 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.
Those arrested were heavily brutalized. As all the police
stations in the city are full,
the people arrested in the October Square were taken to
unknown destinations outside the city limits, one of them said to be
the town of Zhodino.
Their exact location, condition and charges
pressed against them are currently unknown.
Indymedia activists estimate that several thousand people have been detained
during the last 10 days throughout Belarus.
Belarussian activists also