Minsk. Days of Freedom

The “Akrestino” detention center in Minsk received the gloomy fame of a place where people were especially severely beaten and tortured. However, this did not stop the demonstrations, and the authorities – at least temporarily, stopped their attempts to forcefully suppress the protests – and people freely took to the streets of Belarusian cities, and demonstrations in Minsk became unprecedented in number in the post-Soviet years.