Celebration of Day of declaration of national sovereignty in Yanka Kupala Park is also upset

The celebration of the Day of declaration of national sovereignty that was to take place near the Red Roman-Catholic church at Independence Square in Minsk and was upset by special police troops continued in Yanka Kupala Park. About 80 people gathered near the monument to the poet at about 5 p.m. According to “Nasha Niva”, representatives of foreign embassies were among them. Two police buses suddenly approached the park. Policemen surrounded all the present and started forcing them out to Yanka Kupala Street.

At about 5.30 p.m. participants escorted by the police approached the Opera Theatre singing “Farewell, Motherland”. “Nasha Niva”’s web site reports that all of them were released there.