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The report says that there are almost no people left in the “Plaza del Cambio.” Militiamen collected flags and looted banners from a makeshift memorial to the late Raman Bandarenka.
The 31-year-old former soldier was arrested Wednesday. Bandarenka was reported dead from brain injury on Thursday. The news sparked a wave of outrage in the opposition camp, whose representatives say Aliaksandr Lukashenko’s security forces are to blame for the man’s death.
Several hundred people had formed a living chain around the monument early Sunday.
In all, more than 400 people were already detained in Belarus during Sunday’s protests, the majority in Minsk, the human rights organization Viasna said.
The Belarusian Association of Journalists reported that 17 journalists were detained during various protests in various cities of the country.
Interfax reported that one of its correspondents, who had prepared a protest statement, had been detained in the Change Square district of Minsk.
Belarus has been protesting for more than three months against the decision to declare the authoritarian leader Lukashenko, 26, the winner of the disputed presidential elections on August 9.
The opposition and the West consider the election rigged.
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