For the first time in the four weeks of protests in Belarus, LGBT protesters appear carrying rainbow flags in a country where stigmatisation has remained strong.
Authorities have not allowed any LGBT organisation to be legally registered.Police followed the march, but no detentions were reported.A prominent protest organiser has gone to Poland after being released from jail.
They were sparked by the recent election in which Mr Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, was officially declared to have won 80 per cent of the vote. Earlier on Saturday, hundreds of students formed human chains to demonstrate against the detention of students at the State Linguistics University.Opponents leave country, call on UN for helpWatchRiot police blocked marching protesters as they neared Alexander Lukashenko's presidential palace during last week's large demonstrations.
On Saturday, the council reported one of its prominent members, Olga Kovalkova, had left the country for Poland after being released from jail where she was serving a sentence for organising protests.fled to Lithuania the day after the voteOn Friday, she asked the UN Security Council to "stop blatant human rights violations and cynical disregard for human dignity right in the middle of Europe".
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