in Minsk found hanged one of the demonstrators – World News – UNIAN

this material is available in RussianThis is the fourth demonstrator whose death is known for sure.

Kryvtsov was considered missing / photo Nasha Niva

A demonstrator who went missing during rallies on August 12 was found dead in Belarus.

According to NEXTA Live, his severely beaten body was found in a noose in a forest park on Parnikova Street in Minsk.

At the same time, Nasha Niva writes that Nikita Kryvtsov was found dead in a forest in the Partizansky district of Minsk with traces of beatings. The family already knows this.

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This is the 4th demonstrator whose death is known for sure.

Nikita Kryvtsov was 28 years old. The family searched for him for 10 days. Police declared him missing. He lost contact with him on August 12, the last day of post-election protests. He is from Molodechno, his family lives in Zhodino.

Protests in Belarus: a chronicle of events

Belarus held presidential elections on August 9.

According to official CEC data, Lukashenko received 80.1% of the vote, his main opponent Svitlana Tikhanovska – 10.1%, the other three candidates were supported by less than 2%.

Thousands of Belarusians who disagree with the election results went on strike, clashes with security forces, and a political crisis erupted.

Lukashenko is being demanded to resign, the largest protests in the post-Soviet period are taking place in the cities, and workers at key industrial enterprises have gone on strike.

Since the night of August 9, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, almost 7,000 protesters have been detained in various cities of the country. On August 13, they began to be released from detention centers.

Mr Lukashenko has repeatedly stated that the situation in Belarus is being shaken from the outside and has agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin to react jointly “in the event of an aggravation of the situation in terms of external threats”.

On August 19, EU leaders agreed to impose sanctions on Belarus in response to the rigging of the presidential election and the use of violence against protesters.

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