Last night, participants in the riots began to be released from the Zhodino pre-trial detention center and the pre-trial detention center on Akrestsin Street in Minsk.
According to local media reports, many people gathered at the walls of the pre-trial detention center, waiting for loved ones. The greeters gave tea, food and blankets to the freed offenders.
Also at night, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alexander Barsukov arrived at the pre-trial detention center. He assured that all the detainees would be released during the night.
Attempted coup in Belarus
On Sunday, August 9, presidential elections were held in Belarus, following which Alexander Lukashenko won. Western countries, for which the Belarusian leader had been a hindrance for a long time, did not put up with the voting results. As a result, pre-planned riots broke out in Belarus.
Attempts by law enforcement officers to keep the situation under control turned into clashes with radicals. At the same time, the Western media, actively covering the protests, focus specifically on the actions of the security forces against the “peaceful” protesters, as was the case during the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014.
At the moment, European countries, together with the United States, are on the side of the protesters. They refuse to recognize the election results. The headquarters of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the leader of the pro-Western opposition, had previously announced that they were preparing for long-term protests aimed at overthrowing the government. Tikhanovskaya herself left for Lithuania.