MINSK – Belarusian citizens are again forming “lines of solidarity” in different cities across the country following a protest held by women near Komarovsky market in the capital of Minsk on August 12.
Videos and photos published on social networks show a “human chain” near Minsk’s Pushkinskaya metro station, where a protester died earlier. Eyewitnesses have also reported “lines of solidarity” in the Uruchye district, near the Kamennaya Gorka metro station, as well as near the Central Department Store in the city.
According to the Nasha Niva online newspaper, women have formed just such a line near the district administration headquarters in the city of Lida. A similar protest has begun near a bus terminal in Grodno, and the people forming a “human chain” near the regional administration building have taken a knee.
A similar protest is taking place in Zhodino.
Earlier in the day, around 250 women wearing white clothes and holding flowers gathered near Komarovsky market in Minsk to protest vote-rigging in the Belarusian presidential election and violence.
