A taxi driver in Belarus has become an unlikely hero of the protests against veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko after his quick thinking helped a man escape from riot police | Read more: https://bit.ly/3j0TZAn | RTÉ News

10K views · 128 reactions | Demonstrators took to the streets in Minsk, as they continued protests against the presidential election in Belarus, demanding that its authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, step down after he was re-elected for a sixth term. https://abcn.ws/34cVUxs | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir | Facebook

Exiled Belarusians gather at a political rally in Warsaw five years after an unprecedented wave of mass protests against a stolen election, brutally crushed by authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko. As thousands remain in exile, their fight for a democratic Belarus continues, protesters told Радыё Свабода. #belarus #belarusprotests #belarusnews | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was reelected in early August, in what many are calling a fraudulent election. Multiple members of the opposition were jailed ahead of the election, leaving the movement to fall on a trio of women. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports from Belarus as tens of thousands of protesters call for Lukashenko to step down and a new election to be held. | CNN

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