{"id":44162,"date":"2020-08-10T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/white-house-belarus-must-respect-election-protesters-after-disputed-results\/"},"modified":"2020-08-10T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T19:18:00","slug":"white-house-belarus-must-respect-election-protesters-after-disputed-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/white-house-belarus-must-respect-election-protesters-after-disputed-results\/","title":{"rendered":"#White House: Belarus must respect election protesters after disputed results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#White House: Belarus must respect election protesters after disputed results<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\" role=\"main\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>        August 10, 2020 <span>|<\/span> 3:18pm               <span>|<\/span> Updated <span>August 10, 2020 | 3:32pm<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n                        White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Monday that Belarus must allow peaceful protests following a disputed election.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko claims he won re-election Sunday with more than 80 percent of the vote. But his top challenger, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, claims she actually won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply concerned by the Belarus presidential election,\u201d McEnany said at a White House press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSevere restrictions on ballot access for candidates, prohibition of local independent observers at polling stations, intimidation of opposition candidates and the detention of peaceful protesters and journalists have marred the process and we urge the Belarusian government to respect the right of people to peaceably assemble and to refrain from the use of force,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenko, a former Soviet official, often is called \u201cEurope\u2019s last dictator.\u201d He\u2019s been president of Belarus since 1994 and is known for intolerance toward political dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old president contracted COVID-19 last month after claiming saunas and vodka could defeat the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The size of opposition rallies ahead of Sunday\u2019s election suggested Lukashenko could be in a close race.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/10\/white-house-says-belarus-must-respect-election-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#White House: Belarus must respect election protesters after disputed results&#8221; August 10, 2020 | 3:18pm | Updated August 10, 2020 | 3:32pm White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Monday that Belarus must allow peaceful protests following a disputed election. Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko claims he won re-election Sunday with more than 80 percent of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51480],"class_list":["post-44162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-white-house-belarus-must-respect-election-protesters-after-disputed-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}