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16/09/2009

Protesters beaten, arrested in Belarus

Associated Press

Police have violently broken up an unauthorized protest in the Belarusian capital and arrested more than 20 opposition demonstrators.

The protesters had gathered on a central Minsk square and held portraits of two opposition politicians and a TV journalist who went missing nearly a decade ago.

Riot police quickly quashed the protest, beating people with truncheons and throwing them to the ground before dragging them to waiting buses. Police also blocked journalists from taking photographs and violently grabbed their cameras.

Police officials refused to comment on the action.

Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has run Belarus with an iron fist for nearly 15 years, quashing all opposition and independent media.

Source:

http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1059184&lang=eng_news

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