PEople detained in recent days of unrest in Belarus have told the Guardian about systematic abuse and mistreatment, suggesting that guards and police officers loyal to Alexander Lukashenko’s regime have thousands of Belarusians. Russians have terrorized those caught in the attack on recent protests. Those detained in police stations, prisons …
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Dolly Parton is Billboard magazine’s latest cover story, and she takes the opportunity to show her support protests of racial injustice and the Black Lives Matter movement. The 74-year-old said that although she herself did not attend any protest, she understands “people need to make themselves known and felt and …
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Twenty-three-year-old Danya * was sitting with her brother and his wife in Minsk’s Independence Square on Monday, when men dressed in black forced them into a delivery van. The trio wore white ribbons, symbols of opposition to the re-election of the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, who was widely condemned …
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On August 9, Presidential Election Day, clashes broke out in Belarus when insurgent police used rubber bullets, flash grenades, tear gas and water cannon to quell protests. Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled for 26 years, claimed he had won a landslide victory in an election assassination by accusations of vote-rigging. …
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Protesters and police clashed in downtown Portland in a demonstration that lasted into the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, with some in the crowd setting a fire and commercial-grade fireworks exploding outside a federal courthouse that was months old has been in conflict in Oregon’s largest city. Officers used tear gas …
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