During the women’s demonstration, security forces detained about 100 people in Minsk

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The Vyasa Human Rights Center has so far clarified the names of about 60 detainees and continues to add to their list.

Among those detained are Jekaterina Karpicka, a journalist from Nash Niva, Aleksandra Elbauma, a journalist from Tut.by, and Marija Voitoviča, a journalist at Euroradio.

Musicians who started to sing the famous song “Peremen!” By Victor Coy next to the march route were also detained. (“Change!”), Which has become the anthem of Belarusian protesters.

As the Nexta channel reported in the Telegram messaging app, this time Saturday’s demonstration was intended as a “symbolic rehearsal” for the inauguration of opposition presidential candidate Svetlana Tihanovska after the secret inauguration of Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday.

Although the arrests began on the day when people were just beginning to gather for the march, and access to the originally planned gathering place on Victory Square was closed, most managed to gather elsewhere, form a column and march, chanting “President Svetlana” loudly.

Commenting on the detention of the marchers, Tikhanyovsky stressed that “no woman deserves to be detained for expressing her will.”

“No woman deserves to live with an aggressor and an abuser. No child deserves a father who, when he leaves home, detains strangers and mothers. We all deserve to be respected and our civil rights respected. We know that, so we will no longer stop, “she pointed out.

Two people were also detained during the “Free Run” held in Minsk on Saturday morning, the participants of which confirmed their support to political prisoners Maxim Znak and Ilya Saley.