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2 days ago · [47] The protests intensified nationwide after the official election results were announced on the night of 9 August, in which Lukashenko was declared the winner. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the main opponent of Lukashenko, rejected the results as falsified and claimed instead to have received 60–70% of the votes.
6 days ago · Lukashenko appeared to be on track for another heavily managed victory in the 2020 presidential election, but his poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the overt nature of his electoral interference—which included the jailing of opposition candidates—sparked the largest wave of popular demonstrations in Belarus since the collapse of ...
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4 days ago · Belarus was rocked by mass protests after a 2020 presidential election that gave the country's authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, his sixth term in office. Lukashenko is a close ally of Russia's President Vladimir Putin. The opposition and the West disputed Lukashenko's reelection and denounced the vote as rigged.
May 21, 2024 · Belarus’ Investigative Committee said it has opened a criminal case against 257 activists seeking a seat at the exiled Coordination Council, founded by opposition politicians as an alternative parliament in 2020. They had announced an online election for 80 seats in the council, scheduled to be held May 25-27.
May 24, 2024 · The creation of the Coordination Council was announced on Aug. 14, 2020, at the height of anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus after contested presidential elections. The body, which is nominally ...
May 27, 2024 · Human Rights Watch said on May 27 that lawyers in Belarus have been under "unprecedented" pressure since mass unrest followed the official results of a 2020 presidential election that...
May 16, 2024 · FILE - Belarusian riot police block demonstrators gather to honor 31-year-old Raman Bandarenka, who died at a Minsk hospital after several hours of surgery due to serious injuries, during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, on Nov. 15, 2020.
