The police closed the street near the building of the Belteleradiocompany in Minsk. The Izvestia correspondent reported this on August 19.
According to the director of the Belteleradiocompany Alena Martinovskaya, she and her colleagues were on their way to work when she saw a checkpoint on the street near the company building. There, the police officers checked her documents, demanded a service certificate, after which they began to check the lists they had and refused her entry.
The police officers did not explain the reason for the refusal, suggesting to call the management of Belteleradiocompany and ask them. According to Martynovskaya, the lists against which the police were checked is a list of company employees who signed demands to release all those detained after the protest, cancel the election results, remove the CEC chairman from work, and give freedom to the media.
Earlier, on August 17, the leadership of the Belarusian TV and Radio Company in Minsk offered its employees who took to the streets several options for further actions: stay at their workplaces and work, write a letter of resignation or take part in an illegal strike and be fired under the article.
Mass protests in Belarus began on August 9 after citizens refused to recognize the official results of the presidential election. According to the Central Election Commission of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko won 80.1% of the vote, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya – 10.1%. People who took to the streets in protest faced opposition from law enforcement officers.
Some Belarusian enterprises, including MAZ, BelAZ, Minsk Tractor Plant, Belaruskali and others, went on strike demanding the cancellation of the presidential election results.