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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.
The formal reason for his detention was his participation in the rally against the integration of Belarus with Russia on 19 December 2019 in Minsk. After his detention, Tsikhanouski has announced on his YouTube channel his intention to run for president of Belarus. The video had recorded 250,000 views in 20 hours after the publication.
The protesters marched through Minsk and formed human chains. [36] 14 August Lithuania becomes the first EU state to openly reject the legitimacy of Alexander Lukashenko as President of Belarus. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says "We can not call Mister Lukashenko legitimate because there were no free democratic elections in Belarus". [37]
That was a U.N. investigator, Anais Marin, on the situation on Belarus -- after its President Alexander Lukashenko warned his country needs to close its borders with Poland and Lithuania.
"This was not an interview. This was an interrogation," Franak Viacorka, a leading Belarusian opposition figure, said.
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.
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 ...
Approximately 2,500 protesters [18] filled the streets in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, on 17 February to protest a policy that required those who work for less than 183 days [19] per year to pay USD$250 for "lost taxes" to help fund welfare policies. [20] This converts to approximately Rbls 5 million—a half-month's wages. [17]