Artist who claimed guilty of Minsk terrorist act detained in Moscow
Scandalous Belarusian artist Dzyanis Limonau faces deportation to Belarus.
The artist was detained in Pushkin Square in Moscow after checking documents of the 'informally looking citizens', RBC informs.
Dzyanis Limonau is a co-founder of the art group 'Lime Blossom'. Since 2010, the group members have conducted teeming activity related to 'fabrication' of the Belarusian reality, social relations and way of thinking.
The Belarusian law-enforcement authorities took an interest to Limonau after the action 'Fuss in Bus#23' in the end of 2011. The artist played the part of the city psycho, urging the passengers to speak up their outrage about the events in Belarus. According to some information, he has lived in Moscow since then.
On December 31, 2011 Limonau read out an appeal tot he Belarusian Prosecutor General live on air for the 'Dozhd' TV-company. He claimed guilty for the terrorist acts in Minsk metro and in Vitsebsk, that took the lives of 15 people. The artist wanted to save death convicts Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavalyou by this statement. However, it didn't help and the sentence was executed in March 2012.
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