EU will initiate sanctions against those responsible for the violence, arrests and fraud in connection with the election. FMTNews
A woman reacts as she embraces a soldier guarding the Belarusian Government building in Minsk on Aug 14.
Opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who claimed victory in Sunday’s polls, called for further protests against Lukashenko at the weekend. Tikhanovskaya announced the creation of a Coordination Council to ensure a transfer of power, asking foreign governments to “help us in organising a dialogue with Belarusian authorities”.
Mikhail Chernenkov, a 43-year-old entrepreneur, said he was given electric shocks and beaten with sticks in a police station, showing AFP his bruised buttocks. Belarus’s Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said in an earlier call with his Swiss counterpart that Minsk was ready for “constructive and objective dialogue with foreign partners” on the election and its aftermath.
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