Index – Foreign – Assault police again dispersed protesters in Minsk



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On Friday night, riot police again dispersed the protest crowd in Minsk’s Independence Square, writes the MTI.

Already on Thursday night the protesters also dispersed abElarus Police Special Forces (OMON) and asked the journalists present to stand in his way. To Belsat.eu Of the 150 produced you know who the journalists were released from a few hours later.

According to a field report by the Russian news agency TASZSZ, a special unit of the Belarusian police (OMON) has started to detain the men protesting in the square, who are escorted to the prisoner buses. Press personnel at the scene were directed to the edge of the plaza. Unlike the day before, now there has been no journalist.

The women that make up the solidarity chain are surrounded by security, but they are not yet bothered. When the police appeared, the women began to sing. Some held a flower in their hands and a woman became a symbol of the protests, waving a pre-1995 red and white Belarusian flag. According to the Belarusian press, there were similar movements in various residential areas of Minsk.

Belarusian lawmakers demanded a joint statement on Friday demanding the release of political prisoners and people detained in peaceful protests, a news portal run by a police organization called Vyasna-96 (Spring-96) said.

In Belarus, opposition protests have been held for the 20th day since the presidential elections, in which Lukashenko won his sixth consecutive head of state. According to Lukashenko, these demonstrations in his country are controlled from abroad, the opposition denies it. So far, brutal actions by internal security forces against protesters have resulted in at least three deaths, and authorities have detained thousands to break up peaceful resistance to the Lukashenko regime.



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