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All political prisoners will be released, the authorities will cease their violence in the streets and President Alexander Lukashenko will resign. These were the demands that the Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tichanovskaya made to the country’s government two weeks ago.
If this did not happen before October 26, today, then a national strike would take effect, that was the threat. Images on social media and on critical media for the regime It shows that the protests started in various parts of the country during the morning, many from students.
Photographs of the arrests
Already on Sunday, thousands of people gathered in demonstrations in the center of Minsk. According to an estimate by local media, it must have been about 100,000 people, he writes BBC.
523 people were arrested during the day, according to the Belarusian Interior Ministry, Reuters reports.
Movie clips and photos, including on the critical site for the regime Tut. Of, is said to show how the police also on Monday began to arrest protesters and break up the demonstrations.
