Detention in Belarus

He is accused of insulting an official.

It is not clear what Leanid Kulakou is accused of.

Police detained a young man holding a flag with national colors during the Freedom Day rally in Minsk.

He was told that chief of Zavodzki police station wants to have a word with him.

Five people who detained for putting up posters on the Native Tongue Day were released. Two of them were fined 9 million rubles.

Alyaksandr Kosinets said that the protesters near the Taras Shevchenko monument in Minsk called for square protests.

It happened after he had announced that he was going to run for President.

15 people came to the monument to commemorate Sky Hundred heroes including Belarusian Mihail Zhyzneuski yesterday.

People are reporting it in social networks.