Police and military units crack down on protesters in Belarus following contested election.
Sunday's vote was preceded by weeks of opposition rallies that have been the largest political protests in Belarus since the fall of the Soviet Union, and were seen as anProtesters help paramedics to carry a wounded person into an ambulance after clashes with police in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020.
Tikhanovskaya, whom the opposition had unified behind, was moved to an undisclosed location in Belarus on the eve of the vote, amid signs that police were moving to arrest her. Her campaign said several of its members had been detained as voting began on Sunday morning. A former teacher until a few months ago, Tikhanovskaya was a stay-at-home mother but became a candidate after her husband, a popular blogger, was jailed and barred from running. She had joined with two other women, Maria Kolesnikova, and Veronika Tsepkalo, to focus an unprecedented wave of dissatisfaction against Lukashenko.
Late Sunday Tikhanovskaya called on Belarus' security forces to stop using violence against protesters.
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