The victim had been arrested at a rally against the re-election of president Alexander Lukashenko. This protest movement was violently repressed.
The voltage is not shifted in Belarus. The authorities announced on Wednesday that the death of a man detained during a rally against the re-election of president Alexander Lukashenko, the second death recorded since the beginning of this protest movement violently repressed.
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The investigative Committee, a powerful body of investigation has shown that a man of 25 years had died in a hospital in Gomel (south) after being arrested Sunday during an “unauthorized demonstration”. According to this source, which does not specify the exact date of death, his health is “suddenly deteriorated” while he was in detention. Interviewed for Radio Liberty, the mother of the young man argued that he was not participating in the event, but visiting his girlfriend.
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human Chain of protesters in Minsk
The clashes have been previously a death in Minsk and the police was said to have opened fire with real bullets to Brest (south-west), making injured. In the hyper-centre of the capital, the metro stations were closed in the evening of Wednesday and the traffic prohibited. Many police officers were also deployed in large arteries nearly empty.
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Near the station Ouroutché, in the north-east of Minsk, the protesters have formed a human chain have been scattered and beaten by police, in the middle of the crees.
dozens of women, dressed in white, have also formed human chains in other areas of the capital to denounce the police repression targeting the protests against the re-election on August 9, the president Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 26 years. On social networks, and video showed dozens of protesters gathered, or barring them temporarily from the streets of Minsk, on the bottom of the horns of vehicles.
beatings of protesters
During the three nights of protest previous, the security forces have arrested about 6,000 people across the country, but it is not known how many are still detained. Since Sunday evening, the police use of stun grenades and rubber bullets against the protesters, and at least 250 injured have been admitted to the hospital. Internet access has also been severely disrupted. Many scenes of beatings of protesters have been disseminated in the media, while Alexander Lukashenko has branded the protesters “unemployed criminal past”.
The ministry in belarus of the Interior has estimated that the mobilization of protesters was now falling. The rival of president Lukashenko, the opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa, claimed victory, before leaving Belarus for Lithuania, in the night of Monday to Tuesday. A departure under threat of the authorities, according to his supporters.
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presidential Election in Belarus
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According to the official results of the presidential election, Alexander Lukashenko secured more than 80% of the vote, a score to a whimsical, say its detractors, who believe, instead, that Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa, credited of 10% of the votes, won.
