This year’s Freedom Day rally in Minsk will be remembered by numerous detentions and unprecedented police force. Several thousand people took part in the unauthorized action on 25 March.
Over 1000 people – protesters, journalists, random passers-by – were detained within hours.
Extreme Security, Police Check-Ups And New Detentions. Belarus Marks Freedom Day
The protest action through the pictures of TUT.BY’s photographers Alexander Vasyukovich and Dmitry Brushko.

Special forces block the Independence Avenue

Participants of the rally cross the Independence Avenue

Police detain a participant of the unauthorized protest

Participants of the rally cross the Independence Avenue

Participant of the protest is talking to police before being detained

Police detain a participant of the unauthorized protest

Riot police were carrying weapons

Participant of the rally is saying something to police officers

Police detain a participant of the unauthorized protest

Police detain a participant of the unauthorized protest

Riot police during the march

Police detain a participant of the unauthorized protest

A riot policeman helps a woman who was pushed to get up

Police detain a participant of the unauthorized protest

Police detain a participant of the unauthorized protest

Police detain an elderly woman

Participants of the rally march along the Independence Avenue

Police detain a participant of the unauthorized protest
Source: TUT.BY