Freedom Day in Minsk (photo)

20:35 Maxim Vinyarski, Syarhei Maskoi, Alena Lazarchyk and Vlad Barodka have been detained in a yard in Bahdanovich Street. They will be delivered to the Soviet District Department of the Interior, @viasna96 reports. Activist of Eurobelarus Leanid Kulakou has also been detained.

20:20 The meeting is over. Half the people didn’t even have time to go through the metal detectors.

19:45 The column has reached Bangalore Square. People are going through metal detectors to enter the fenced territory.

18:40 The column is heading for Surhanau Street.

18:30 People are forming a column to head for Bangalore Square. Yellow-blue bands are being given out to express solidarity with Ukraine.

18:10 About 2 thousand people have gathered near the Academy of Sciences. The territory in front of the cinema house is full.

18:00 The ground in Bangalore Square is hedged but the police have not arrived yet. There are no metal detectors either.

17:55 People are gathering near the Academy of Sciences. About 300 participants have already arrived.

The column will walk to the Park of Peoples’ Friendship. A meeting will be held there from 7.30 p.m. until 8 p.m.