The first cracks began to show in the authoritarian regime of President Alexander Lukashenko as a senior official and police officers resigned in protest over violence against demonstrators.
shared photos and videos on social media showing them throwing out or destroying their uniforms and credentials.beneath a photo of his police badge and awards. At the time of publishing, it had more than 380,000 likes.popular talk show hosts and news presenters announcing their departures over the government-ordered abuse of protesters.
Riot police numbering in the thousands have been deployed across the country, transforming public streets and squares where families once strolled into bloody battlegrounds. The largest concentration of them is in Minsk, where the protests, now in their fifth day, have been the largest and the clashes on the streets the most violent.A woman gestures during a rally following the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, Aug. 10.
At least 68 journalists, including foreign journalists, have been detained, and 23 of those remain in detention facilities, the Russian Mediazona news siteMinsk-based journalist Hanna Liubakova, citing her own sources, reported on Thursday that police had begun searching hotels for foreign correspondents.
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