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“There were arrests in different parts of Minsk under the administrative (rape) process,” said Natalia Ganusevich, spokeswoman for the Central Executive Board of the Minsk Executive Committee. She added that “several people have been arrested.”
Unauthorized protests were held in Minsk on Wednesday. According to the portal tut.by, the protests were mainly attended by students, and in some parts of the city so-called “solidarity chains” were formed.
VIDEO: Under the cloak of secrecy: Lukashenko was sworn in as president for the sixth time in Minsk
Lukashenko’s urgent inauguration came as a great surprise to Belarusian journalists and observers. Announcements of the next inauguration appeared on Wednesday morning on the channels of the Telegram platform. Later, online media published photos of A. Lukashenko’s tuple. Journalists raised the version that it is a rehearsal for the inauguration of A. Lukashenko.
Minsk officials did not return calls or say they had no information on the date of the inauguration. However, reports soon surfaced on Telegram and on the BelTA website of the Belarusian state news agency that Lukashenko had been sworn in and assumed office.
Following these announcements, the President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda, the head of the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ivan Korčok, and the representative of the German government Steffen Seibert, announced that they did not recognize Lukashenko as President of Belarus.
For more than a month there have been unprecedented protests in Belarus over the presidential elections on August 9, in which Lukashenko has been declared the winner. According to official data, A. Lukashenko, who has held this position since 1994, received the support of 80.1 percent. voters, while opposition candidate Sviatlana Cichanouskaya received 10.12 percent. votes. The opposition and the West consider these results to be falsified.
The biggest protests in Belarus take place on Sundays. According to media reports, some actions attracted more than 100,000. persons. Some 7,000 people were arrested in the first days of the protests. protesters, most of whom were later released. The arrests have intensified again in recent weeks.
The protests did not go without human victims, but their number varies, according to various sources. On August 25, Cichanouskaya reported that at least six people had died. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, four people were killed in protests in Belarus. UN experts are also aware of some 450 reported cases of ill-treatment of detainees.
Two days after the elections, S.Cichanouskaja left for Lithuania under pressure from the authorities. On August 18, her supporters established a Coordination Council with a view to a peaceful transfer of power and new elections. Minsk considers this institution unconstitutional. Currently, practically all the members of the Presidium of the Coordination Council are in detention or expelled from Belarus.
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