Protests have raged on in the Belarusian capital with students, women and, for the first time, LGBTQI activists demanding the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko.
Masked security agents have dragged students off the streets and bundled them into vans as new protests broke out againstian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday on the fourth weekend since his disputed re-election.
Elsewhere masked men dragged away students who had gathered at an eatery in Karl Marx Street in the centre of Minsk, while some of the protesters shouted"tribunal!", according to footage shown by news outlet TUT.BY.Thousands of women later held a separate march through Minsk in the afternoon, shouting"hands off the children" as one of their slogans.
After the service finished, priests and protesters marched in a procession around the building known as the Red Church and said prayers on the square, with hundreds of people shining their phones as flashlights.
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