Students’ protest action against cancellation of benefits severely broken up

Special police troops have severely broken up a students’ protest action against cancellation of benefits in Minsk today.
Let us remind you that the organizers were not allowed to hold the meeting in the park of Friendship of Peoples because of repair works planned there.

In spite of it young people decided to enter the park. After the police had blocked all ways to the park the participants gathered at a bus station near McDonald’s at Bangalor Square.

But mass detentions of participants and the action’s organizers started there. About 30 people continued walking towards Yakub Kolas Square but at the crossroads of Surganava and Kolasa streets they were severely dispersed by special police troops who used force for it.

About 30 people were arrested. Some of them were delivered to Savetski District Department of the Interior, and others were taken to Central District Department of the Interior.

The leader of the youth of BNF Ales Kalita and one of the action’s organizers Franak Vyachorka are among the detained.

According to radio “Liberty”