Authorities sealed off roads and deployed heavy vehicles as tens of thousands protest against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
People attend an opposition rally to protest against police brutality and to reject the presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, September 6 2020. Picture: TUT.BY/ REUTERS
The human rights group Spring-96 said at least 70 people were arrested. Russia's Interfax news agency reported that several people were injured when police broke up a protest outside a state-run tractor factory. Demonstrations have carried on throughout the four weeks since the election, gaining in size on the weekends and drawing tens of thousands of people each Sunday.
“Belarusians have already changed, they have awakened and it is impossible to push them back into the former mindset.”
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