Tens of thousands are marching in Minsk and several other cities in Belarus to demand the resignation of President Lukashenko, suspected of electoral fraud. And the riot police don’t like it very much.

Hundreds of thousands are demanding the departure of Europe’s last dictator and the holding of new presidential elections after Alexander Lukashenko is suspected of winning an allegedly fraudulent election. The Belarusian opposition took to the streets masses inexperienced at the time of the regime change. Peaceful demonstrations were systematically crushed by army force, and thousands of activists were arrested by riot police. Follow us for the latest news!

The assault police are trying to disperse another now common Sunday mass demonstration in Minsk and several other cities in Belarus.

Since the presidential elections in Belarus in August, protesters demanding the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko have taken to the streets almost daily across the country on suspicion of electoral fraud. The dictator is trying to control the protests, especially the larger mass movements on Sunday, with the power of the army, after noting that he has no intention of resigning.

After the police removed thousands of participants from the initial demonstrations, the protesters changed tactics to make things difficult for the authorities: dozens, sometimes hundreds, beat each other to avoid raising the sirens. And the riot police are trying to respond by trying to rally the activists before the start of the demonstration and trying to “hunt down” them one by one even after the demonstrations. Thus, in the capital of Belarus more and more violent scenes are taking place: riot police in black hoods and off-road policemen in helmets already produced hundreds of activists on Sunday, writes the independent news portal Meduza.

In Minsk, attempts were made to disperse a marching crowd of hundreds of people on Dzerzhinsky avenue, producing at least twenty people, a mix of men and women. Similar scenes took place on Independence Avenue, from there dozens of protesters were taken away. Similar atrocities have been reported in Brest and Nemig.

MTI, citing a statement from the Belarusian Interior Ministry, writes that so far about 250 people have been produced. Tens of thousands participate in the movement. Independence Square in Minsk was surrounded by security guards and surrounded by metal bars. The subways were also closed. Police formed in the building of the Palace of the Republic in the center of the city. Uniformed security guards installed metal fences and barbed wire barriers here as well. Buses of additional prisoners and law enforcement are waiting in the side streets.

This time, anti-government protesters called for a “March of Heroes”, which spoke in part with opposition activist Marija Kaleshnikava, a member of the Coordinating Council presidency, who was in official custody.

And on Saturday, hundreds of women took to the streets in Minsk demanding Lukashenko’s resignation. Security forces detained 114 protesters, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. Eighty-seven of them were jailed.



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