• Belarus Uprising

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  • The protests of 2020 have become the largest in the history of Belarus. At first, they were caused by the falsification of the presidential elections, but they became truly massive after it became known about the massive violence against the detainees and the first deaths of demonstrators. Society did not tolerated with cruelty and political violence.

    All this has already become a part of the new history of Belarus: barricades, shooting rubber bullets at unarmed protesters and stun grenades; hundreds of people who have been tortured in police stations and in Okrestina prison; grief for the killed; women's protest, which brought hundreds of thousands of Belarusians out of their stupor into the streets; weekly Sunday protests; decentralization of protest and the emergence of local courtyard communities; tension and increased danger in September; escalation of street violence by security forces in October-November.

    Minsk, Belarus
    August - November 2020

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  • Clashes with riot police during protests against the falsification of results of the Presidential election. On the election day all over the country were arrested around 3000 people. Minsk, Belarus. August 9, 2020.

  • Participants of protest on barricades near "Minsk Hero City Obelisk”. August 9, 2020. Minsk, Belarus./p>

  • Grenade explosion. Riot police has used stun grenades and rubber bullets that causes multiple heavy injures among protestors. August 9, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Ambulance helps man that was hit by police van. Van was driven by riot police inside crowd of people. Man has survived. August 9, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Riot police and multiple military troops have constantly beaten people after their arrest in paddy-vans (on a background) and in police stations. Violence became a legalized tool of suppressing protest. August 9, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Protestors sitting on the blocked avenue at Pushkinskaya subway station. Few minutes before brutal dispersal by special forces. August 10, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Stun grenade explosion. In 2020 authorities started using weapons and special equipment against people on the streets - grenades, rubber bullets, water cannons that lead to plenty of heavy injuries and deaths. August 9, 2020.

  • People at barricades at Pushkinskaya subway station on the second day of protest. Minsk, Belarus. August 10, 2020.

  • People are regrouping after dispersal at Stella on the first day of protest. Minsk, Belarus. August 9, 2020.

  • The biggest protests were happening on Sundays. Usually authorities were closing all subway in neighborhoods near the announced place of gathering to make it difficult to gather people. August 30, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Women's solidarity march. Women played a key role in 2020 protests, mobilising the whole society to go out to the streets after a wave of violence in prisons and police stations in August 9-11. August 29, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Activist Nina Bahinskaya (73) posing in front of riot police during an opposition protest rally called "Unity March". More than 100.000 people gathered at a peaceful protest rally that finished with massive detentions of 293 people by riot police. Minsk, Belarus. September 6, 2020.

  • Soldiers in raincoats guarding "Minsk Hero City Obelisk" during an opposition protest rally called "Unity March". September 6, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • OMON guarding buses with arrestants at Okrestina prison. August 12, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Soldier is collecting flowers during a protest rally near the House of Parliament. August 14, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Riot police stopped the flow of protestors near Independence Palace during an opposition protest rally that gathered more then 100.000 people. Like many other protests at the begginning and at the end of rally police were arresting people. That day 293 people were arrested. Minsk, Belarus. September 6, 2020.

  • People at the farewell ceremony with Alexander Taraikovsky killed by riot police on August 10. August 15, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Protestors during the first Sunday protest rally that gathered more than 200.000 people. People stay at the WWII monument "Minsk Hero City Obelisk". August 16, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • White-red-white lamps in a house on outskirts of Minsk. Decoration of the city in colors of the national flag became a significant part of underground struggle with authorities. September 5, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Special forces in a cordon in the city center. All power structures wearing masks while working on protest dispersals because of fear of be identified. September 6, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Special forces transporting during protest march. October 18, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • People are running from riot police at Pushkinskaya subway station. October 11, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Volunteers and relatives of arrested protestors waited for them even in the deep night near Okrestina prison. August 15, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.

  • Children are waiting to eat a cake at Plaza of Change, a local community of citizens who organizes cultural and protest events near their home. Minsk, Belarus. October 17, 2020.

  • Protest rally at House of Parliament. Minsk, Belarus, August 19, 2020.

  • Self-organized memorial during farewell ceremony with Alexander Taraikovsky killed by riot police on August 10. Minsk, Belarus, August 15, 2020.

  • People are staying along big avenues with national flags and flowers in so-called "solidarity chains", getting welcoming signals from passing cars. August 13, 2020. Minsk, Belarus.