Hundreds of women marched in Minsk, even though they knew that the slave cars were waiting for them.

Hundreds of women started the promised series of anti-government protests over the weekend in the Belarusian capital on Saturday, and several of them were detained by police.

Police were waiting for protesters in large numbers in the center of Minsk, with slave cars waiting nearby. At least 60 people, most of them women, have been detained and deported, several of them before reaching the site of the demonstration, according to the human rights organization Vasa. But the organization says passers-by took from the shopping malls uniformed police officers who did not want to protest, and even buskers from the underpasses.

The opposition has been protesting every weekend since the August 9 elections, demanding the resignation of the official winner of the elections, President Alexander Lukashenko. During Lukashenko, now on Wednesday, before the time required by law, he was installed in office behind closed doors, writes MTI.

Security forces are cracking down on protesters increasingly ruthlessly, with more than 7,000 people now in custody. In a massive rally scheduled for Sunday, the opposition is scheduled to symbolically inaugurate opposition leader Sviatlana Cihanouszkaya as president. Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting for the event, and today’s women’s parade is the opening of that.