Police and government Special Forces in Belarus have broken up a protest rally against economic hardship in the country, arresting scores of peaceful demonstrators. More than 1,000 people gathered at an unauthorized rally against the government’s economic policies near the presidential headquarters in the capital Minsk. The activists did not have banners or chant, but merely clapped their hands and stamped their feet. There is no official information from the Belarus Interior Ministry on the number detained, while the Vesna human rights group claims some 450 activists have been detained, and hundreds more have been interrogated by the police and KGB, the internal security agency. At least five journalists from local news agencies, radio station and newspaper have also been arrested.
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