Dozens of "Litvin Club" members detained in Minsk
They got together to discuss Frantsishak Alyakhnovich's book "In the Claws of the GPU".
Politician Vital Rymasheuski has informed this to Euroradio. According to him, on Wednesday night riot policemen broke into the session of the "Litvin Club" which took place in a private apartment in Zaharadny Drive.
Vital Rymasheuski : "A friend of mine is there. He has texted me and asked for help. All the people have been just "loaded" into the bus. He has sent a message that the policemen tried to accuse them of something connected with drugs."
Rymasheuski has informed that three buses with riot policemen arrived to the incident site. They detained about 40 people. According to Rymasheuski's information, all the detainees were delivered to the Moscow district police department and they were there in the assembly hall. However, a policeman on duty denied this at first. Therefore, Rymasheuski filed an application that "people disappeared in the center of Minsk".
Several hours later all detainees were released.
"Litvin Club" is a discussion club. Its members got together today to discuss Frantsishak Alyakhnovich's book "In the Claws of the GPU*". Let us remind you, in this book Alyakhnovich told about his imprisonment in Stalin camps and prisons.
* GPU, or the State Political Directorate, was the secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1934. Formed from the Cheka, the original Russian state security organization, on February 6, 1922, it was initially known under the Russian abbreviation GPU--short for "Gosudarstvennoye politicheskoye upravlenie of the NKVD of the RSFSR" (Государственное политическое управление НКВД РСФСР). Its first chief was the Cheka's former chairman, Felix Dzerzhinsky.
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