{"id":106186,"date":"2020-11-06T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/disabled-hold-rally-in-belarus-to-demand-president-step-down\/"},"modified":"2020-11-06T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:09:13","slug":"disabled-hold-rally-in-belarus-to-demand-president-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/disabled-hold-rally-in-belarus-to-demand-president-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"#Disabled hold rally in Belarus to demand president step down"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Disabled hold rally in Belarus to demand president step down<\/strong>”
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\n KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 More than 200 disabled people rallied in Belarus\u2019 capital Thursday, continuing a nearly three-month wave of protests triggered by the disputed reelection of the country\u2019s authoritarian leader.<\/p>\n

They demonstrated in Minsk\u2019s central avenue chanting \u201cGo away!\u201d and \u201cYour time is over!\u201d to demand President Alexander Lukashenko\u2019s resignation. Several people were detained.<\/p>\n

More than 15,000 people have been arrested since the protests erupted after Lukashenko\u2019s reelection to a sixth term in the Aug. 9 election, which was widely seen as rigged. Most served short jail terms or were fined, but 100 have remained in jail, described as political prisoners by human rights groups.<\/p>\n

The United States and the European Union have rejected the Belarusian vote as neither free nor fair and introduced sanctions against Belarusian officials accused of involvement in vote-rigging and the post-election crackdown.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko\u2019s main challenger in the vote, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, met Thursday in Vienna with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. Tsikhanouskaya, who moved to Lithuania after the vote under pressure from Belarusian authorities, has pushed for Lukashenko\u2019s resignation and a new election.<\/p>\n

A report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe\u2019s rapp<\/a>orteur Wolfgang Benedek pointed at \u201cmassive and systematic\u201d human rights abuses, including \u201cwell-documented cases of torture and ill-treatment in the crackdown by the security forces on political dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report presented Thursday urged Belarusian authorities to annul the vote results, call a new presidential election, release all political prisoners and \u201cimmedia<\/a>tely cease all violence, in particular torture and ill-treatment against peaceful protesters and opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daily protests in Belarus have continued despite arrests and intimidation by the government. On Wednesday authorities also detained several musicians who had played concerts in courtyards around the capital in a show of solidarity with protesters.<\/p>\n

Protests have reached peak numbers on Sundays, attracting crowds of 100,000 or more, but the most recent Sunday protest saw a turnout of only about 20,000 as police toughened their response, blocking streets and dispersing groups of demonstrators. Authorities also launched criminal proceedings against more than 230 participants in Sunday\u2019s protest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to see the country as it was before the election,\u201d Lukashenko said at an award ceremony on Thursday. \u201cAnd it shall remain like that for as long as I\u2019m president.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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