Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has left her country, apparently under duress, amid a wave of protests against the alleged falsification of the country’s recent presidential election. Western governments have criticized both the election itself and a crackdown by security forces that has seen thousands of people detained, dozens injured, and at least one killed
There have been angry protests and clashes with police in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, after authorities declared that President Alyaksandr Lukashenka had been reelected for a sixth term in a landslide win. Protesters accused police of using rubber bullets and said there had been several injuries
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