Belarus police detain hundreds of protesters in Minsk

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Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, has been rocked by mass street protests an election last month that opponents of the incumbent…

Saturday’s protesters, most of them women, briefly scuffled with police who then blocked their path and started picking people one by one out of the crowd, the witness said.

Among the detained was 73-year-old opposition activist Nina Baginskaya who has become an icon of the protest movement after scuffling with armed policemen last month.

 

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