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Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests - Minsk

Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests  Minsk
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Police are deployed to disperse protesters.
Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests  Minsk
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Police lines are deployed to disperse protesters.
Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests  Minsk
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A woman gestures as police are deployed to disperse protesters.
Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests  Minsk
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Police form a line as they are deployed to disperse protesters.
Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests  Minsk
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A man demands that a Traffic police officer explain why he had taken car documents off his friend. The men were driving down a street where police were holding back the participants of a silent protest action.
  • Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests  Minsk
  • Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests  Minsk
  • Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests  Minsk
  • Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests  Minsk
  • Police block Oktyabrskaya Square to prevent Protests  Minsk

Belarussian police blocked Oktyabrskaya square to prevent a silent protest action that had been planned to take place during the evening. The police force was deployed and dispersed people who had gathered at the square. Belarus. June 15th 2011

Belarussian police blocked the main Minsk square to prevent silent protest action that had supposed to take place at 19.00 June 15th. The police forces deployed and forced the people who had come to the Oktyabrskaya square out. Several people were arrested and beaten in police buses.

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