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Again they proceeded brutally: the emergency services forced dozens of people onto prisoner transporters in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. Before that, hundreds of women had again protested against President Lukashenko.
In new protests by women against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the police arrested hundreds of people in Minsk; According to the civil rights portal spring96.org, there were more than 300. The security forces got in the way of the women and put them in emergency vehicles, like a journalist from the news agency. AFP looked. Nina Baginskaja, 73, a veteran of the protest movement and a dissident who has been known since her fight against communists in Soviet times, was also forced into a van.
Around 2000 women participated in the march entitled “Glitzermarsch” and carried the red and white flags of the protest movement and bright accessories. “We do not forget! We do not forgive” and “Lukashenko, in the prisoner transporter,” the protesters chanted in the Komarowski central market. The prisoners’ vans waited at various locations. Motorists honk in solidarity with women.
The opposition calls for new elections
The protesters demanded new elections without Lukashenko, the release of all political prisoners and the prosecution of police violence. Also in other cities of the country, women were summoned, as on previous Saturdays, to demonstrate peacefully against “the last dictatorship in Europe.” The Girl Power Belarus organizers announced this on their news channel on Telegram.
Since the presidential elections on August 9, there have been daily protests in Belarus. Lukashenko had been declared the winner of the election with 80.1 percent of the vote after 26 years in office. The 66-year-old is running for a sixth term. The opposition, however, sees Svetlana Tichanowskaya as the real winner.
“This barbarism must end”
Tichanovskaya praised the bravery of the women from her exile in the EU. “They leave, even though they are constantly scared and pressured,” said the 38-year-old. At the same time, she accused the Lukashenko regime of a new low point in which it now also instrumentalized children.
Authorities had put the six-year-old son of Minsk activist Jelena Lasartschik in a house on Friday. Hundreds of people called off the premises today to return their son to the parents. Lasartschik left the house with the boy in the morning, to shouts of “Hurray” and applause from the crowd. The case was also the subject of the women’s protest today.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reacted in shock. Once again, the country’s leadership used the children as “political hostages”. The practice has been known since the communist days of the Soviet Union, when attempts were made to break the political will of women in this way. “This barbarism must stop,” the Polish politician wrote on Twitter.
