The government of Belarus is considering the possibility of introducing a curfew for minors in the country. This was reported on the twenty-fourth of November by «Telegraph».
The initiative to introduce a curfew for underage adolescents was initiated by Anatoly Kuleshov, who holds the post of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus. So, according to Kuleshov, after eleven o’clock in the evening, teenagers should be prohibited from being on the street unaccompanied by adults. According to the minister, such a restriction should significantly contribute to the reduction of juvenile delinquency..
Thus, the Telegraph Information Agency notes that recently in Belarus, there has been a noticeable decrease in the crime rate among minors. So, in the last ten months of this year, teenagers committed fourteen percent fewer offenses than in the same period last year..
Note that today the curfew for minors is in effect in some other countries, for example, in the Russian Federation. According to the amendments made to the law «On basic guarantees of the rights of the child in the Russian Federation», which was approved by President Dmitry Medvedev last year, all Russians who have not reached the age of eighteen are prohibited from appearing in certain public places from ten o’clock in the evening until six o’clock in the morning..
