Masked police fire tear gas and stun grenades as protests against the disputed Belarusian election result enter their 50th consecutive day.
Masked police have dragged people into vans and fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse crowds as about 100,000 demonstrators marched for a seventh straight weekend to demand long-time Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko quit.Some protesters wore fake crowns to mock Alexander Lukashenko's inaugurationAt least 200 people were detained, the interior ministry said.
Some dubbed the protest a "people's inauguration" of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Mr Lukashenko's main opponent who fled into exile after the August 9 election that critics have said was blatantly rigged to hand the incumbent president a sixth term."Today is the 50th day of our protest and the Belarusian people have again come out on the streets," she said in a statement from Lithuania, where she went into exile after the election.
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