Thousands Demonstrate Against the President
Police scuffled with protesters in Belarus, as several thousand people gathered to demonstrate against President Alexander G. Lukashenko. A rights group said about 50 opponents of the authoritarian leader were detained.
Riot police with clubs fought with some of the protesters who assembled at a square in the center of the capital, Minsk.
The rally was held to protest Lukashenko’s policies in his 10 years as president of the former Soviet republic and his plans to possibly seek a referendum that would ask voters to allow him to run for a third term.
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