Conditions at Minsk Akrestsina Detention Center, where protesters are kept 11 August 2020, 22:41 | Radio Free Europe Two actresses of Belarus Free Theatre, Sviatlana Sugaka and Nadezhda Brodskaya, are kept under arrest at Akrestsina detention center in Minsk. They were sentenced to 10 and 13 days respectively. On 9 August, they were detained during…
11 August 2020, 22:39 | tagesschau.de Autocrats from all over the world have learned a lot from Lukashenko: the leaders of Venezuela, China and Iran appreciate and honour him. Thanks to state coffers filled with Russian money and European ignorance towards Belarus, Lukashenko was able to govern repressively for 26 years. But now the game…
11 August 2020 | svaboda.org What must have been another “elegant victory” for Alexander Lukashenko turned into slaughter, says Joerg Forbrig, director of Marshal’s Fund in Central and Eastern Europe. “Lukashenko has openly declared war to the people of his country. But this war he has already lost, no matter the direction, the price in…
11 August, 2020 | Dmitry Navosha, Forbes The outrageous presidential election campaign and subsequent brutal dispersion of mass-protests may well be part of Aleksandr Lukashenko’s original plans. The consequences, however, for the incumbent leader of Belarus, and the country’s elites, may turn out to be catastrophic yet. It has only become apparent now why Lukashenko…
11 August 2020, 18:40 | European Council On 9 August, Presidential elections took place in the Republic of Belarus. The EU has been following the developments leading to the presidential elections closely. During the electoral campaign, the people of Belarus have demonstrated the desire for democratic change. However, the elections were neither free nor fair. State…
Explaining protests in Belarus 11 August 2020 | Hanna Belovolchenko, Zaborona Presidential elections took place on 9 August in Belarus. According to exit polls, current President Alexander Lukashenko received 80% of the votes. The announcement of this result caused widespread protests. In Minsk, police used tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets against protesters. More…
Monologue of a Minsker released due to judges time pressure 11 August 2020, 15:57 | Aliaksandr Baradzikhin, MediaZona Yuri Meleshkevich, 37, a member of the council of the center-right BPF party (Belarusian Popular Front party), was detained by riot police (OMON) in the center of Minsk on August 7 during the crackdown of an opposition…
Kryscina suffers from diabetes and she probably hasn’t got necessary meds with her 11 August 2020, 14:16 | Nadezhda Kalinina, TUT.BY A resuscitationist Andrei Vitushka and his wife analyst Kryscina Vitushka were arrested in the evening of the 10th August near Minsk Central police precinct. They were looking for their under-age son who was captured…
11 August 2020 | Nexta Live Hi, What happened here? What is the spot? Today OMON (translator: riot police in Belarus) beat up the men. Do you see how much blood here? They chased him and beat him up. Now I’m cleaning all of it. The man ran away, OMON wanted to detain him, he…
Violence, shootings, and barricades. One person dead 11 August 2020, 04:23 | Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty On August 10, for the second night in a row thousands of protesters took to the streets across Belarus. People showed their disagreement with the official results of the presidential election. Mass protests and violent clashes with…
