Authorities create a new channel after Telegram deleted the original GUBOP channel
March 13, BPN. In the night of March 12, Telegram messenger administration deleted GUBOP channel, belonging to the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) within the Interior Ministry.
In particular, this channel contained “confession” videos of detained participants of protests against falsified results of the 2020 presidential election and violence against Belarusians, as well as insulting comments about protesters, and threats to subscribers of “extremist” Telegram channels.
In the morning of March 12, this agency of the Interior Ministry, one of the key structures in the suppression of protests, created a new Telegram channel, GUBOP MVD.
So far it has only announced: “Closer to midnight, for reasons not yet known to us, the administration of Telegram has removed our Telegram channel GUBOP. We are not going to dwell on the achieved results, as the work of the department should be covered. We will keep working in the proper direction, we will keep fulfilling the tasks assigned to the department… Keep working, brothers!”
The heads of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption are on the sanctions lists of the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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