“The arrests were ... within the administrative process,” she told RIA Novosti.

The number of those detained was not specified.

In the evening of September 8, in the center of the Belarusian capital, the opposition held a march in solidarity with the detained member of the Coordination Council Maria Kolesnikova. 

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko commented on the situation with Kolesnikova in an interview with RT and other Russian media.