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The Minsk police have started arresting the protesters. For the seventh Sunday in a row, tens of thousands took to the streets demanding the resignation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Police also said tear gas and light grenades were used to disperse the crowd.
Wrote the telegraph office. At least ten people have been detained, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
Belarus has been protesting since the presidential elections on August 9, since Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner by the Central Election Commission with 80.1 percent of the vote. The opposition said the election was rigged. Lukashenko denies electoral fraud and claims that the protests are supported from outside. Lukashenko was installed into his sixth term on Wednesday without notice, sparking further protests and criticizing the European Union, the United States and Britain.
The 66-year-old former Soviet state economic director has been in power in the former Soviet republic for more than a quarter of a century and, with the support of his traditional ally Russia, shows no willingness to leave, Reuters noted.
150 people were arrested on Saturday. Meanwhile, the The Belarusian foreign minister accused his country’s western neighbors of leading the Belarusian state into chaos at a session of the UN General Assembly. Uladzimir Makej öand he warned that interventions in the internal affairs of the country, sanctions and other restrictive measures would have the opposite effect. The head of Belarusian diplomacy stressed that the future of his country will be determined by his own people, but not through barricades, but through civilized dialogue.
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