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Inside Europe: Crackdown on protests in Belarus

Filip Warwick
March 31, 2017

Belarus' capital Minsk was the site of one of the country's largest protests last weekend. The demonstrations are against the rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, sometimes described as "Europe's last dictator." Freelance photographer and journalist, Filip Warwick was in Minsk and ended up being detained by the country's security services known as OMON. He explains what happened.

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