LIVE: Fourth Day Of Protests In Belarus. What Is Happening Now

12 Сер 2020 | Політика | 482 |
LIVE: Fourth Day Of Protests In Belarus. What Is Happening Now

Protests in Belarus continue for a fourth consecutive day, as security forces use violence, flash grenades, rubber bullets, batons and water cannons in an attempt to disperse demonstrators demanding a transparent vote count.

Recall that according to early results announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC), Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko gathered 80% of the vote in an election many believe was fraudulent. Today, women across Belarus took to the streets with flowers to protest the brutality of riot police officers.

5 pm Minsk. People start gathering at Uruchcha metro station. Several metro stations are closed. At about 6 pm, Minsk residents formed a human chain near Vostok metro station.

A column of people is moving past Yakub Kolas Square towards Victory Square. There are several hundred of them, people are holding raised hands, some carry flowers, cars are honking in support.

6.03 pm Bobruisk. Traffic policemen are standing next to the human chain. They ask women to stay of the main road. Passing-by drivers are honking in solidarity.

6.04 pm Minsk. People are gathering near Pyatrowshchyna metro station. Cars are heard beeping.

6.18 pm Minsk. Eyewitnesses report that protesters are gathering near Novaya Borovaya.

6.22 pm Mogilev. Entrances and aisles to the center are blocked, pedestrians, cyclists and buses go in the opposite direction.

6.33 pm Minsk. The solidarity action stretched to Pritytskogo Street – people are standing along the road, cars are honking.

6.41 pm Minsk. New detentions of journalists. According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), Ukrainian journalists Konstantin Reutsky (Hromadske TV) and Yevgeny Vasiliev have been detained near Victory Square.

6.42 pm Minsk. About 30 doctors from various hospitals have gathered at the medical university to stop violence in the country.

The number of participants is increasing. They are holding placards that read: “Medics are against violence”, “Stop violence”. On the opposite side of Dzerzhinsky Avenue, opposite the medical university, a chain of people has lined up.

6.45 pm Minsk. Meanwhile, Minskers, including doctors, are uniting in teams to provide medical help to those who may be injuried during the protests.