own correspondent made connally who's been covering the protests against all thora tarion neda alexander lukashenko it was the 2nd time this week police have taken him into custody a crackdown comes as the opposition tries to bring people out onto the streets hoping to kickstart mass demonstrations like those saying after the claimed victory in a disputed presidential election in august. when economy has since been released and he joins me now from minsk nic tell us more about your deal what happened what led to your detention. good morning well i've it's difficult to deal with it definitely was 5 hours wasted time and 5 hours where i wasn't able to report i was actually doing my job i was at this protest that had been posted by the opposition as the 1st big protest of this bring in a suburb of minsk would have to kind of walk through side streets to avoid police checkpoints and police attempts to stop people turning up i was wearing a blue journalist special i was easily identifiable now within about 2 or 3 minutes of me coming on a mobile phone i was in a bus and being taken to a police station a

correspondent nick connelly has been covering the protests against all foreign terry and neda alexander lukashenko it was the 2nd time this week police have taken him into custody a crackdown comes as the opposition tries to bring more people out to the streets hoping to kickstart mass demonstrations like those same after playing to victory in a disputed presidential election in orbit sed. a date of unease director general peter limburg has condemned connelly's detention in a statement he said it's scandalous that such methods are now being used to hinder the work of accredited journalists in belarus but we will not let it intimidate us in our efforts to deliver independent information to the people of belarus. nick was released yesterday after 5 hours in detention earlier i asked him whether more demonstrations were expected i think protests will go on they're going to be decentralized and it's all going to be about for the opposition trying to keep people sort of spread out across the t.v. it's going to be difficult for the police to make mass arrests we were he seemed things like people. reachi