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World Briefing: Riot Police Break Up Protest Rally ; Belarus

Posted on: Sunday, 26 March 2006, 06:00 CST

By COMPILED BY Kate Thomas

Riot police wielding truncheons clashed yesterday with demonstrators who held a protest rally against the disputed election that returned Belarus's hard-line President, Alexander Lukashenko, to power

. The opposition leader Alexander Kozulin was among the few protesters detained. The clashes occurred after riot police blocked the path of anti-government protesters marching to a jail where demonstrators arrested in previous protests were being held. At least two people were injured.

Source: Independent on Sunday, The

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