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December 21, 2020 In Minsk, the Ministry of Interior has created a unified database, where all participants in the protests against Lukashenko, but also chat users and administrators of Telegram channels critical to power can be entered.
The system will include data on the sex, age, region of residence, place of work or study and hobbies of a "suspect" person.
The database was designed to include opposition attendees and rally organizers, chat room users, and Telegram channel administrators.
"We have already made a big push, we can say a turning point, which allows us to identify these citizens," said Deputy Interior Minister Yuri Nazarenko.
The system will automatically collect statistical data on demonstrators and generate related reports.
It is not known how much money was spent on setting up this database.
According to the Belarusian Center for Human Rights "Viasna", the total number of detainees in the country, since the beginning of the protests dating back to 9 August, has exceeded 30,000.
In November, the police arrested over four thousand people.
Mass protests are underway in Belarus for the fifth consecutive month since the presidential elections on 9 August, according to which incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko, running for the sixth term, has received 80% of the votes.
The protests were violently suppressed by the security forces.
Thousands of people were arrested, many of whom reported being tortured and beaten in solitary confinement cells.