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 claims that uniformed police officers who did not want to protest, and even buskers from underpasses, also took passersby from shopping centers.

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. Meanwhile, Lukashenko was installed in office before Wednesday, ahead of the time required by law. 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 await the event.



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