In the 2020 elections, the former candidate for the presidency of Belarus, co-chairman of the liquidated public association “Tell the Truth” Andrei Dmitriev, was detained. writes about it TASS Regarding the human rights center “Viasna”.
“They detained Andrei Dmitriev, a former presidential candidate and head of Tell the Truth,” the report says.
Other details are not given at this time.
This is not the first arrest of Dmitriev. Before that, he was detained on August 12, 2021. He was released the same day with a confidentiality agreement.
On October 8, 2021, the Supreme Court of Belarus liquidated the Republican Research and Education Public Association (RIPOO) in connection with the violations found in the activities of the “Tell the Truth” organization. Its co-chairman was a politician.
In 2015, Andrei Dmitriev became the head of the electoral center of the presidential candidate Tatyana Korotkevich, who received 22.3% of the vote in the elections, according to the independent sociological agency IISEPI.
Andrey Dmitriev is running for the House of Representatives in 2019. According to official data, it gets the best result among alternative candidates.