7 reported held after unsanctioned Belarus protest

A Belarusian human rights organization says seven opposition activists have been detained by police after an unsanctioned protest by more 1,000 people in a provincial city. The Friday demonstration in Maladzyechna, a city of about 100,000 people 75 kilometers north of the capital Minsk, came a day after President Alexander Lukashenko suspended the collection of fines from unemployed people.