For more than 100 days, people in Belarus have been protesting against falsified election results and police violence.
In the weeks since presidential elections on 9 August, tens of thousands of residents of Minsk, the capital, and other cities come out onto the streets to protest against Alyaksandr Lukashenka, who has been in power for 26 years. In Minsk, the numbers of attendees have exceeded 100,000 - a huge figure for a city of two million. In response, Belarusian police have used riot batons and water cannons to disperse people. The EU has sanctioned Belarusian officials for election falsification and police violence.
Many professional communities and collectives have participated in the protests. Medics have called out police violence and pressure on the healthcare service, while workers in key state-owned industries have been fired, arrested and forced out of the country for taking active positions.
