About 200 Belarusians arrested for negative comments about KGB officer’s death
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BREST, 7 October (BelTA) – About 200 people have been detained all over the country for making negative comments about the death of a KGB officer in a shootout in a Minsk apartment, BelTA learned from Belarusian Internal Affairs Minister Ivan Kubrakov on 7 October.
The internal affairs minister said: “Some are trying to have fun by hyping about this death. About 200 citizens have been detained so far. They have written all kinds of filth in Telegram channels hoping nobody would find them. They called for taking up arms and taking to the streets. All of them are in prison. Criminal cases have been opened. We are finding out the identities of more and more people. Some of them live in Brest Oblast.”
In his words, the behavior of such “freedom fighters” changes drastically once they are arrested. “In the Internet they write one kind of things: they call for murdering people. Not only law enforcement officers but other citizens with a different opinion. Once they are arrested and face charges, they cry and start remembering their families and friends. I call upon everyone to think in this Year of People’s Unity, get united and live peacefully and calmly in our country,” the minister told those present.
