Blogger Ihar Losik detained on back of Lukashenka’s blasting Telegram

Accord­ing to pre­lim­i­nary infor­ma­tion, nine per­sons – masked inves­ti­ga­tors and offi­cers in civvies — took part in the raid.

“[The place of] one of our admin­is­tra­tors, Ihar Losik, was searched. We may tem­porar­i­ly freeze this chan­nel. We will keep you informed via this chan­nel or oth­ers,” his fel­lows said on Telegram.

A lap­top, a com­put­er and a phone were seized from the blog­ger. The oper­a­tion was pre-arranged, his col­leagues say.

“Detain­ing Losik is linked to Lukashenka’s state­ments about Telegram. Need­less to say, it is not the end of the cleanup,” they stressed.

Dur­ing the search, his wife Darya and their child had to wait in the com­mu­nal entrance hall­way. Accord­ing to her, the vis­i­tors were demon­strat­ing theit aggres­sive atti­tude

“They said that if we didn’t open the door, it would be blown up,” Darya says.

Then Losik was tak­en away by the police. It is unknown what the blog­ger is charged with. How­ev­er, the issuance of the war­rant can be indica­tive of open­ing a crim­i­nal case.

The Belarus Of The Brain telegram chan­nel has more than 166,000 sub­scribers.