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Belarus: Ice Cream-Eating Flash-Mobbers Detained

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Belarus, Food, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Protest

EM of TOL's Belarus Blog thinks [1] it'd be better for the Minsk flashmob community to move underground: “The problem with all of that is that KGB is reading those online communities as well, so there are usually security people present at the flashmobs even before they start. […] Or is the whole point of this flashmob movement to draw attention to the arrests that follow the action? If so, I can see their point, but shouldn’t they be more honest about their goals then?…” LJ user litota_ posts pictures from a recent flashmob [2], during which young people were detained for somethin as innocent as eating ice cream at Oktyabrskaya Square. (On this post [3]‘s first pictures one can see the plainclothes KGB agents in action, dragging a young girl away.)