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The autocrat Alexander Lukashenko (66) has been using brute force against his people for weeks. Now Natalie Herrsche from St. Gallen was arrested during a demonstration in Minsk. She is said to have been sentenced to 15 days in prison for resisting the police, her relatives in Switzerland say.
At the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs (EDA) confirmed a corresponding article in the “St. Galler Tagblatts ». The FDFA is not authorized to provide further information for personal and data protection reasons. According to the Saturday edition of the newspaper, it is a woman from St. Gallen who participated in the women’s demonstration last Saturday. Eda does not know of any other Swiss arrested.
The friend of the arrested man in Switzerland received a final video of Herrsche, from a prisoner carrier. “I am under arrest,” he said. In the background you could hear the screams of other women sitting on the bus in the dark. The friend does not know how the detainee is or what the conditions of imprisonment are in the “last dictatorship in Europe”.
More than 300 arrests
According to human rights organizations, more than 300 arrests were made during the protest action of women in Belarus against the head of state Alexander Lukashenko on 19 September. The civil rights portal “spring96.org” published the names of 314 women who were arrested in the capital, Minsk, during the action.
Since the presidential elections on August 9, there have been daily protests in Belarus. Lukashenko had been declared the winner of the election with 80.1 percent of the vote after 26 years in office. The 66-year-old is running for a sixth term. The opposition, however, considers Svetlana Tichanowskaya to be the real winner.
The FDFA confirmed that it had already raised concerns about the tense situation after the controversial presidential elections. Authorities have repeatedly been unequivocally called upon to respect human rights obligations, allow peaceful demonstrations, and release detained protesters, according to the FDFA. (sda / sac)
One Country, Many Names – The former Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic has been officially known as the Republic of Belarus since 1991. The use of this name is intended to counter the misunderstanding that the country is only a part of Russia. However, this term is slowly gaining acceptance in the German-speaking world. However, the Swiss Foreign Ministry constantly writes “Belarus” and “Belarusian”, with an s. There is also confusion with the flags: the protesters use the old white-red-white flag of Belarus as a sign of identification. The pro-Lukashenko people wear the official green and red flag.
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