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During protests against the ruler Alexander Lukashenko, security forces took action against demonstrators in Belarus.

Videos in the news channel Telegram showed on Sunday how people in the capital Minsk ran away from masked emergency services.

You could also see demonstrators being led away and police officers sometimes beating them.

The authorities in the evening spoke of more than 300 arrests, as many as in the previous week.

The Wesna Human Rights Center initially listed the names of more than 230 people arrested.

The Sunday protests that have been going on since mid-August regularly lead to mass arrests.

According to estimates, a total of more than 30,000 people have now been taken into police custody.

Thousands of people took part in the actions this time.

They first met in their neighborhoods and then formed larger groups.

It was with this strategy that people responded to the police violence.

They denounced that the security forces would not be held accountable for this.

Protests also broke out in other cities in the country.

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During their marches, the demonstrators demand the resignation of Lukashenko, who has been in power for more than 26 years.

Many carried white, red and white flags of the opposition in wintry weather.

"This Sunday is the 18th Sunday in a row on which the people show that they are ready to continue defending their rights," said civil rights activist Svetlana Tichanovskaya.

EU no longer recognizes Lukashenko as president

The 38-year-old competed against the head of state in the controversial presidential election on August 9.

The 66-year-old was then confirmed with 80.1 percent of the vote for a sixth term.

The EU no longer recognizes him as president.

For the opposition, Tichanovskaya is the real winner.

She fled abroad.

On Sunday evening, the civil rights activist took part in a prayer for Belarus in the Berlin Cathedral.

She said that the people in her home country wanted to continue their protest peacefully.

“We have hope for our future.” Archbishop Heiner Koch said in his sermon: “You are not alone in Belarus.

We stand by you. "

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This Monday afternoon, she wants to meet Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin.

Then she will travel to Brussels and hold talks with the EU foreign representative Josep Borrell and members of the EU Parliament, said the opposition leader.

"The most important task of this visit is to stop violence and lawlessness against Belarusians."

On Wednesday Tichanovskaya will receive the European Parliament's renowned Sakharov Human Rights Prize.