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share Print Arrests, beatings, forced exile, and even death. Belarusians have paid a high price for raising their voices in opposition since authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed a landslide victory and a sixth presidential term in an August 2020 election that hundreds of thousands of citizens contend was stolen. And now a leaked audio recording has emerged of what is said to be a senior Belarusian Interior Ministry official discussing plans to build an internment camp complete with barbed wire for political prisoners. That s not all: The person speaking also urges officers to use a more lethal weapon against protesters, assuring them they will face no repercussions if they do, and apparently admitting that a unarmed civilian killed at a demonstration in Minsk in August was in fact shot at close range with a rubber bullet by riot police. ....
Lukashenko s long rule over Belarus looks set to survive 2020. What about 2021? 7 Protests against Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus / AP With opposition leader forced to flee to Lithuania, what does the future for Belarus hold? Radio Free Europe reports. Ever since he came to power in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has used controlled elections and other levers at his disposal to prolong his own power and to restrain or eliminate rivals in some cases literally, according to those who believe he was behind the unsolved disappearances of several opponents. The August 9 presidential election that handed the 66-year-old former state-farm manager a sixth straight term was no exception, with the most viable potential challengers barred from the ballot and in some cases jailed all but one, in fact, who was apparently deemed no threat. ....
Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya had attracted larger and larger crowds as the election neared, however, making the official result 10 percent for Tsikhanouskaya, 80 percent for the incumbent an absurd lie in the eyes of many Belarusians. So they took to the streets. Many were already dismayed by the government s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, with hospitals ill-equipped to handle the onslaught from a pandemic Lukashenka dismissed as a mass psychosis. Hundreds of thousands of people have protested in Minsk, in the western cities of Brest and Hrodna, and elsewhere for many months now by far the biggest wave of demonstrations in Belarus since it gained independence in the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. ....
U.S. Puts Sanctions On Belarusian Police, Official Over Crackdown austinglobe.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from austinglobe.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
16.12.2020, 12:57 There was already a similar case. Yesterday, the Unified Crime Registration Book revealed the names of the security officials involved in the case of Maksim Kharoshyn in Lithuania. These are the ex-head of the GUBOPiK Mikalai Karpiankou and the head of the Pershamaiski District Department of Internal Affairs Andrei Bakach. It is said that the court of universal jurisdiction, where the examination in Kharoshyn s case is currently underway, is empowered to bring the perpetrators to criminal responsibility and punishment, regardless of the place of the crime or the citizenship of the accused or the victim. With the approval of such a court, Interpol has the right to detain proven criminals, even if they are on the territory of other states. ....