October square && toilets
People are still on the October square. The number of participants fluctuates from 6000-7000 (at around 6-7PM) down to about 500 people (at 5-6AM, the coldest time). Police is still blocking the square, searching through every bag, and not letting people with food and hot drinks to get through. People with blankets and tents get arrested.
A human rights organization “Spring-96″ published a list of about 300 people that were arrested for political reasons during this campaign, of them about 150 people were arrested near or around October square in the last four days.
Most of them are charged with 15-day administrative arrests.
Cars that honk when passing the October square get pulled over by road police and drivers are fined.
Today the main “lavatory” of the October square was closed down. The “lavatory” was just a tent which covered a sewege hole, with a trap-door removed. Today police sent city workers who blocked and welded the trap-door.
Now they got several buckets instead. City authorities refused to provide normal toilets.
March 22nd, 2006 at 11:40 pm
damn… you really need the police on your side. or at least passive.
March 23rd, 2006 at 9:35 am
Yikes… talk about a bucket brigade. I at least hope they’re the kind of buckets used for paint, spackle or something. You know, the ones with lids, so they can be more-or-less transported away in relative safety.
Well, it’s yet another indication of the inhumane treatment. The protesters don’t need to be treated like royalty, but no one was arresting them as they came to or left from the tent city, then they could simply walk to a neighboring apartment and take a pit stop… but that’s Lukashenko’s point. No freedom. Just work for the state.