Belarus: Just a prelude to November or another bad result for 10 millions Belarusians?

Smacc_25 · August 10, 2020, 10:58pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1292947409614454784

https://mobile.twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1292951209150562304
https://mobile.twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1292951487484555264
https://mobile.twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1292951492488380416

…

Smacc_25 · August 10, 2020, 11:09pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/XSovietNews/status/1292957872171745285

https://mobile.twitter.com/XSovietNews/status/1292945142652051456

Smacc_25 · August 11, 2020, 2:08pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/olliecarroll/status/1293182562748084230
https://mobile.twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293127604330016769
https://mobile.twitter.com/marcbennetts1/status/1293130041606524928

Smacc_25 · August 11, 2020, 2:13pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293099970543923201

kre8tive · August 11, 2020, 3:15pm

On 29 May 2020, Syarhei Tsikhanouski and at least eight other men were arrested in the city of Hrodna, in northwestern Belarus, while collecting signatures for Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s presidential candidacy, and charged with “organization or preparation for a grave breach of public order.”[28] Footage and witness accounts show that Tsikhanouski was detained following an incident after a woman aggressively followed and touched Tsikhanouski in an apparently deliberate attempted provocation; two police officers then “joined the woman in her pursuit of Syarhei Tsikhanouski” and a scuffle with police ensued.[28] According to the Viasna Human Rights Centre, at least 13 people were detained, including two members of Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s initiative group and three aides to Syarhei Tsikhanouski. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus said that they had opened a criminal case for supposed “violence against police officers.”[29] Although Belarusian officials claimed that police were injured, there is no evidence in video footage of any such injury.[28]

In response to Siarhei Tsikhanouski’s detention on May 29, 2020, Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya demanded the immediate release of her husband, condemning “the ‘dirty’ provocation” against him; declaring that "the picket was legal and peaceful in nature; and calling the arrest a politically motivated violation of her constitutional rights.[30] Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have condemned the Belarusian authorities’ arrests of Tsikhanouski and the broader crackdown by Belarusian authorities on opposition figures, journalists, and bloggers ahead of the 2020 president election, including arbitrary arrest and detention and pretextual criminal charges.[28][31] Amnesty stated that “The arrest and prosecution of Syarhei Tsikhanouski and others detained alongside him are arbitrary, unwarranted and politically motivated” and considers the group to be “prisoners of conscience, as they are detained solely for peacefully exercising their human rights.”[28]

-Wikipedia

microbet · August 11, 2020, 3:34pm

Seems like Morales got like 47% of the vote and Lukashenko really got like 10%. Maybe people just cheer for democracy?

microbet · August 11, 2020, 4:06pm

After a power struggle there’s a pretty simple rule that will tell you who the bad guy was about 99% of the time. It’s the winner.

Jalfrezi · August 12, 2020, 11:11am

6,000 arrested from a population of 10 million, scaled up for USA#1 would be 200,000 arrests.

"a single cell (~3x4m) now contains 36 people in female bloc and 50 in male”

bobman0330 · August 12, 2020, 11:50am

Did you get those numbers from the coupmongers at OAS?? Lukashenko got 80% of the vote—a true populist champion!

bobman0330 · August 12, 2020, 12:03pm

Maybe this is slightly overstated, but it’s at least conceivable that Lukashenko could legitimately have won an election. Morales was constitutionally barred from even standing for election!

kre8tive · August 12, 2020, 5:36pm

https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1293599906347663360?s=20

microbet · August 12, 2020, 5:44pm

It’s true and certainly running for election again was not decent, but the way you look at Morales and see a Stalinist Dictator is telling, or trolling, or both.

bobman0330 · August 12, 2020, 7:45pm

The way I look at Morales and see a Stalinist dictator is made up. He was a standard soft-authoritarian strongman.

microbet · August 12, 2020, 8:09pm

Somehow Morales became a thing itt.

jerry · August 13, 2020, 2:05pm

it’s definitely weird to see someone read a post about human rights abuses going on right now and then whatabouting, but he’s got a bone to pick so we let it go.

Smacc_25 · August 13, 2020, 2:16pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293908578630131722

Smacc_25 · August 13, 2020, 2:17pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293898647411851265

Smacc_25 · August 13, 2020, 2:17pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293889317060980737

Smacc_25 · August 13, 2020, 2:18pm

Solidarity to my brothers…

https://mobile.twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293862615706415105

Smacc_25 · August 13, 2020, 2:22pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293668679624855552
https://mobile.twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293668681260515329
https://mobile.twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293668682942623744