Belarusian 200m sprinter is forced to travel to the airport to board flight back home after complaining about national coaches at Olympics By Jack Wright For Mailonline Published: 08:35 EDT, 1 August 2021 | Updated: 08:38 EDT, 1 August 2021 A Belarusian 200m sprinter who publicly complained about national coaches at the Tokyo Olympics said … Read more
Riot police arrested hundreds of women today in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during a ‘Sparkly March’ protest calling for an end to President Alexander Lukashenko’s rule. Around two thousand women took part in the demonstration, wearing shiny accessories and carrying red-and-white flags of the protest movement. Officers blocked the women and began dragging them … Read more
Video footage has emerged showing a lone protester in Belarus facing up to a line of armed vehicles before being taken down with water cannon and detained by police. The scene, reminiscent of the legendary Chinese protester who faced down a tank during the Tianamen Square unrest, emerged amid widespread clashes last night over the … Read more