According to the participants, the police stated that a special permit was allegedly required for such an "event".

According to the report, a group of 18 people was taken to the Pervomaisky District Department of Internal Affairs in Minsk for attempting to have a picnic in one of the city parks.

Security forces detained a group of Belarusians for a picnic in a park. The story of one of the Threads users was noticed by human rights activists from "Viasna".
Before being put into a paddy wagon, people's mobile phones were confiscated — as the security forces explained, "so they wouldn't film the car from the inside".
The detainees were held at the District Department of Internal Affairs for about two and a half hours. The police checked the contents of their smartphones. Before their release, people were forced to hastily sign a document whose content they were not informed of.
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