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On the 50th day of protests in Belarus, Minsk residents participated in the unofficial inauguration of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who was forced to leave the country after the August 9 elections.
On September 27, some 100,000 people took part in a march through the streets of Minsk on the 50th day of protests against the falsification of the presidential election results. This was reported by the Associated Press.
Police began arresting opposition supporters even before the march started. In total, according to the Interfax agency, 140 people were arrested in Minsk.
The human rights center “Viasna” counted 262 detainees in the capital and other cities of the country, among them three journalists were imprisoned.
Today’s action symbolized the “takeover of the people” by opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, writes the Telegram channel NEXTA.
The “inauguration of the town” looked like a real party and certainly surpassed in all the deceptive crowning of rats, which the usurper (Alexander Lukashenko. – “GORDON”) decided to celebrate this week “, – said the authors of the Telegram channel.
Mass protests have been going on in Belarus since August 9. The protesters believe that the results of the presidential elections were falsified. According to the Central Election Commission, Aleksandr Lukashenko won with 80.1% of the voters. Opposition candidate Tikhanovskaya came in second with 10.1% of the vote. At the same time, alternative exit polls showed the opposite picture: Tikhanovskaya’s confident victory.
The Belarusian security forces brutally dispersed the discontents. They used stun grenades, rubber bullets, and water cannons.… During the protests, more than 10,000 protesters were detained, hundreds were injured and wounded. According to official data, four participants of the rallies died.
Lukashenka assumed the presidency on September 23. The opening ceremony was held in secret at the Minsk Independence Palace. For the first time in the history of Belarus, it was neither announced nor broadcast on television..
After the secret inauguration of Lukashenka, the residents of Belarus also protested. The police used water cannons against them.
Tikhanovskaya was forced to leave Belarus after the elections.
Several states, including the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Denmark and the Czech Republic, did not recognize Lukashenko’s inauguration. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that Lukashenka’s inauguration does not mean that he is recognized as the legitimate head of the Belarusian state.
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