Belarusian police have rounded up dozens of protesters heading home from peaceful demonstrations, rights groups said on Wednesday, after days in ...
FILE PHOTO: The 2015 Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich speaks during a meeting at the 29th International Book Fair or FILBO in Bogota, Colombia, on Apr 21, 2016. MINSK: Belarusian police have rounded up dozens of protesters heading home from peaceful demonstrations, rights groups said on Wednesday , after days in which the authorities exercised comparative restraint towards mass anti-government rallies.
Although Lukashenko has called the protesters"rats" and said he has given the order to clear them from the streets, police had been comparatively restrained in recent days, apparently wary of a crackdown that would add to public anger. In one typical account, a man wearing a red-and-white opposition flag on his shoulder was walking with his wife and young son, when an unmarked car pulled up, the group said. Two men in plain clothes jumped out, pushed the woman and child away, shoved the man into the car and drove off.The Interior Ministry said police had detained 51 people for administrative violations after unsanctioned rallies on Tuesday. It typically reports dozens of such arrests per day.
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