On January 13 of this year, on the way to Semezhav for the ceremony of "Christmas Kings" (included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO) in Grozav, Kapila district, the security forces detained a large excursion - up to 80 people, on two buses - with guides

Ales Varykish, Natalya Zhdanok

and

Ivan Satsukevich

.

Documents and phones of all detainees were checked.

Most of the people, except for the tour guides, were let go.

Later it became known that two tour guides - Ales Varikish and Ivan Satsukevich - were detained for 72 hours.

The participants of the excursion did not get to the ceremony, because they were kept in the bus in Kapila for 5 hours while they were being checked.