Police Beat, Arrest Demonstrators
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From Times Wire Reports
Police beat demonstrators protesting hard-line President Alexander Lukashenko as they cleared an unauthorized rally in the capital, Minsk. As about 1,000 activists began to march out of Independence Square, police arrested dozens of people. Earlier, police raided the headquarters of the nationalist Popular Front--which opposes Lukashenko’s policy of forming some kind of union with neighboring Russia--and detained Yuri Khodyko, who has helped organize street rallies.
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