From our correspondent in Moscow
Numerous arrests - around 250 - took place before the now ritual Sunday demonstration even began in central Minsk.
It was the fifth time since the disputed elections of August 9, which sparked this crisis, that demonstrators marched en masse in the center of the Belarusian capital.
On Sunday, they were in force, around 150,000.
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For the first time, barricades were even erected, while several thousand demonstrators, moving away from Independence Avenue, the epicenter of the protest, tried to reach the Drozdy district, where the residence of 'Alexander Lukashenko placed under high protection.
The rally was entitled the “march of the heroes”, in tribute to the thousands of people arrested and dragged, often brutally, in unmarked vans by police officers from the Ministry of the Interior (Omon), men in fatigues without insignia and soldiers. nervis in civilian clothes.
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