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“It just came to our attention then. She recorded this address (in my office) without me, “said L. Jermoshina in an interview with KP – Belarus.
He added that Ms. Cichanouskaya had filed a complaint about the election results to the CRK under the supervision of journalists. “We invited her to my office because I wanted to meet her, let’s say, two high-ranking law enforcement officers. I introduced them, she stayed with them along with the lawyer. And I left,” said the head of CRK.
After addressing the Belarusians, S. Cichanouskaya left Belarus for Lithuania. He said he made the decision to go on his own.
In Belarus on August 9. presidential elections were held. According to final official figures, the current head of state, Alexander Lukashenko, raised 80.1 percent. opposition candidate Sviatlana Cichanouskaya: 10.12 percent.
As soon as the first voting results were announced, massive protests broke out in Minsk and other Belarusian cities, escalating into clashes with the militiamen. About 6,000 were arrested. people, many protesters were affected.
The EU has decided to impose new sanctions on Belarus
EU foreign ministers agreed to draw up a list of people who will be penalized for cracking down on protesters after anti-democratic elections in which Alexander Lukashenko was allegedly defeated, officials in Brussels said.
“The foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on those responsible for the repression, a list of names will be drawn up,” an EU official told AFP after a ministerial video conference.
Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde wrote on Twitter that the EU “would initiate a process of sanctions against those responsible for election-related violence, arrests and fraud.”
Once the list of those responsible has been drawn up, the sanctions for each person must be approved unanimously by all EU member states, however, according to officials, none of the 27 EU countries have expressed objections to the sanctions.
In a video conference, the foreign ministers also agreed to resolve the differences between Greece and Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean through dialogue.
Thousands of people were arrested, hundreds were injured and at least two died in protests after Sunday’s presidential elections. The public asks Mr Lukashenko to resign.
Media groups report dozens of journalists have been detained in Belarus
Journalists’ organizations report that some 70 journalists have been arrested in Belarus for reporting on alleged abuses during the voting in the presidential elections this weekend.
According to Thursday, 23 journalists remain in detention, Reporters Without Borders said, citing a report by the Belarusian Journalists Association. According to the report, people who worked as journalists were accidentally detained, beaten and, in some cases, locked up for long periods.
It is also reported that 29 journalists used force against security agents, seven were seriously injured.
“Such harassment of media workers in Europe is completely unacceptable,” said Catherine Monnet, the group’s deputy editor-in-chief.
In Belarus, the sixth day of protests ended without harassment and arrests of protesters
Protests in Minsk and other Belarusian cities on Friday ended before midnight without clashes with militias and arrests of protesters.
Major protests have plagued Belarus since last Sunday, according to the opposition, they rigged the presidential elections, which re-elected authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko for a sixth term.
The militia used water cannons, rubber bullets, incendiary grenades and tear gas against the protesters.
In total, almost 7,000 people have been arrested since the protests began. hundreds of people were injured and two died.
On Friday, medical workers protested the earlier police actions, lining up in chains near their workplaces.
Musicians and teachers gathered near the building of the Belarusian State Philharmonic. They were joined on campaign day by presidential candidate Andrei Dmitrijev and a partner of candidate Sviatlan Cichanouskaya and Maryja Kalesnikava, head of Viktor Babaryka’s non-election staff.
As on Thursday, protests were held in the center of Minsk with women marching on Independence Avenue.
Drivers of all Minsk taxi services contributed to the peaceful protests.
On Friday, workers from a chain of industrial companies held peaceful protests. Employees of the Belaruskalij fertilizer company, the Minsk Tractor Plant, the Minsk Automobile Plant, the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant, the Navapolock Naftan Oil Refinery, the Grodna Azot Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant, the subway from Minsk, the high-tech park and other companies protested. The protesters demanded re-elections, the release of all people and political prisoners detained during the protests and an end to the violence by the forces of order.
In a dungeon, protesters from cities like Brest and Grodno made their demands to the mayors who met with them, but the head of the Minsk administration, Anatoly Sivak, did not meet with the protesters.
On Friday night about 2.5-5 thousand. The protesters, many of whom were employees of the Minsk Tractor Plant, gathered at Government House. The militia did not start chasing the protesters, and after 9 p.m. the local (and Lithuanian) crowd dispersed over time.
True to Aliaksandr Lukashenko, the CRK announced on Friday that the current Belarusian leader had received 80.1 percent of the vote last week. her main rival, opposition candidate Sviatlana Cichanouskaya, won 10.12 percent.
According to the Commission, Dmitrijev received 1.21%, Hana Kanapatskaya 1.68% and Siarhei Cherachen 1.14%. votes. 4.59 percent voted against all the candidates. voters.
Voter turnout was 84.28 percent, according to the CRK.
The meeting was, in fact, secret: it was not announced, no representative of the media was invited, and there was no video broadcast of the meeting.
The actions of the country’s authorities and security agencies to suppress post-election protests have been harshly criticized by officials from the European Union and the United States.
The head of European Union diplomacy, Joseph Borrell, announced on Friday that the Community does not recognize the official results of the presidential elections in Belarus and is beginning to work on sanctions against those who have violated democratic principles.
“Belarus: The EU does not agree with the election results. Work is underway to punish those responsible for the violence and counterfeiting,” he wrote on Twitter on Friday after a videoconference of EU foreign ministers.
An extraordinary video meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council was held, one of the main topics of which was the situation in Belarus and possible sanctions against “perpetrators of acts of violence and counterfeiting”.
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