A man beaten by security forces has died in Belarus / Article / LSM.lv

Belarusian society has been shocked by the death of a severely beaten Minsk. Men dressed in masks, considered by activists to be OMON employees in civilian clothes, attacked Raman Bandarenko, 31, who had come out of the so-called “Square of Change” in the backyard of his home on Thursday evening, November 12.

The men who arrived took off the white-red and white ribbons and were severely beaten when Bandarenka demanded that they be stopped. Later, the man died of the injuries in resuscitation.

According to the news, hundreds of people began to gather in Belarus’s “Square of Change”, blaming the Lukashenko regime for his death. On Friday, November 13, activists declared a general day of mourning.

Opposition leader Svetlana Tihanovska, who has now arrived in Riga to attend the Riga conference, stressed that Bandarenka had been killed by Alexander Lukashenko’s bandits.

She also appealed to Bandarenka’s mother, saying that her son had become an innocent victim of a brutal system that the Belarusian people considered a hero.

CONTEXT:

Protests against the rigging of the presidential election have continued in Belarus since 9 August.

According to the official results of the presidential election in Belarus on August 9, the former head of state Lukashenko won 80.1% of the vote and the opposition candidate Tikhanovska – 10.1%, but the opposition believes that the election results are fake and Tikhanovsky won the election convincingly.

The European Union and other Western countries have also refused to recognize the election results.

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