Protests by the opposition in Belarus have been echoing over the capital Minsk every Sunday since the criticized election on 9 August.

Also on Sunday, the streets were filled with tens of thousands of protesters, and as so many times before, they are met by riot police and tear gas.

"Today, the regime has once again shown Belarusians that violence is the only thing it is capable of," opposition leader Svetlana Tichanovskaya wrote on Telegram on Sunday.

As the police often find it difficult to make arrests during the protests, they have changed tactics.

Now the demonstrators are waiting for them when they are on their way home, to be able to arrest them in small groups.

"Storming into apartments"

Minsk residents have now begun unlocking their gates and exterior doors so protesters can hide.

But videos show how the police enter people's apartments to arrest protesters. 

- We have seen disturbing film material on riot police storming into someone's private apartment and abusing the people inside, says Denis Krivosheev, international manager at Amnesty.

Following the presidential election on August 9, 2020, when President Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner and claimed to have won 80 percent of the vote, the biggest protests since the dissolution of the Soviet Union erupted.

Thousands of people have since been arrested in the country.

According to observers, a free and fair election has not been held in Belarus for decades.

Protesters Aksana Krutova and Zmicier Kaspiarovich witnessed the incident and tell in the clip what they saw.