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On Sunday, for the third time, tens of thousands took to the streets of the Belarusian capital again at the call of the opposition in a protest march called Peace and Justice, according to the French news agency AFP and the local press. According to the EFE news agency, there were more than one hundred thousand.
Despite the march of many armored vehicles and riot police that prevented many from joining, the center of Minsk was filled with crowds, especially on the road from October Square to Independence Square, and at the Monument to the Hero City of Minsk, which is protected by soldiers.
The protesters marched under the red and white flag of the opposition and chanted “Lukashenko to slavery”, “Take cover”, “Long live Belarus”. Police detained dozens of people at the start of the protest. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said later that a total of 125 people had been produced. The police did not use tear gas, sound grenades or rubber bullets this time, as in previous demonstrations.
A correspondent for the Russian news agency TASZSZ reported that during the clash at the headquarters of the state security service, the KGB, protesters released those who had been introduced and plainclothes law enforcement officers were forced to leave the place by car.
Some of the participants in the procession left for the presidential residence. The opponents, through the channels of the Telegram messaging service, asked the protesters who were heading to the Independence Square to change course and march towards the presidential residence to “leave a gift in the square” for Alexander Lukashenko, who this Sunday celebrates his 66th birthday, reported Interf. Russian news agency. Law enforcement agencies have confirmed the security of the residence. The mass movement was originally planned for the Plaza de la Independencia, and it was probably because they went to the presidential residence that the forces of order blocked the roads to the Plaza de la Independencia.
The HCLU correspondent reported from the scene that mobile phone service in the center of Minsk is stagnant and that the Internet is no longer working.
The opposition has been protesting in Belarus since the controversial presidential election on August 9, in which Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, officially won more than 80 percent of the vote. On the previous two Sundays, some 100,000 people took to the streets of Minsk in defiance of the ban on protests and in retaliation against protesters, political leaders and various media outlets.
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