MINSK, 9 August (BelTA) - There have been no repressions in Belarus, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the Big Conversation with the President, a meeting with the public, experts and media community in the format of a big press conference in Minsk on 9 August, BelTA has learned.
“There have been no repressions in my country and will never be. I do not need this. Such things would not benefit me. Using repressions in Belarus would be akin to shooting oneself,” stressed Aleksandr Lukashenko.
The president said that he would never cross ‘this line'.