MOSCOW (RUSSIA) – Security forces in Belarus detained protesters on Sunday to disperse crowds demanding a new presidential election, TV footage showed.
Footage published by local news outlets showed protesters being dragged at a rally that had thousands onto the streets of the capital Minsk.
Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is now based in Lithuania, demanded for new elections and for all political prisoners to be freed.
She said, “We will continue to march peacefully and persistently and demand what is ours: new free and transparent elections.”
Similar rallies were held in other cities across the country on Sunday.
