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The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were a series of mass political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko. [71] [72] The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus, the demonstrations began in the lead-up to and during the 2020 presidential election, in which Lukashenko sought his sixth term in office.
On 9 August 2020, in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 Belarusian presidential elections, which were considered by the Belarusian opposition to be falsified, massive gatherings of protesters started to be forming in Minsk and other major cities of Belarus. In the following night, the initially peaceful protests turned into a full-scale ...
The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were [1] a series of political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko. [2] [3] The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus, the demonstrations began in the lead-up to and during the 2020 presidential election, in which Lukashenko sought his sixth term in office.
"This was not an interview. This was an interrogation," Franak Viacorka, a leading Belarusian opposition figure, said.
On 15 August 2020, the prime ministers of the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) called on Belarus to conduct new, "free and fair" elections supervised by international monitors. [ 19 ] The foreign ministers of four EU member states; Estonia , Finland , Latvia , and Poland jointly called for an EU video conference to discuss a ...
On September 17, 2020, the European Parliament, in a resolution approved by an absolute majority of MPs, called for an "independent and effective investigation" of the death of Hienadz Shutau related to the protests. [29] On November 19, 2020, residents of Brest recorded a video message in connection with the escalation of violence in Belarus ...
[1] [2] It follows an underground theatre group Belarus Free Theatre during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. [3] The film had its worldwide premiere at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival in the Special section. The film was also nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Film Award.
Belarusian women form human chains to condemn a crackdown on protests over the disputed election. [35] Factory workers from state-run factories joined the protest. Tens of thousands of people protested for the fifth day in a row against the election results. The protesters marched through Minsk and formed human chains. [36] 14 August