Riot police in the western Belarusian city of Brest fired into the air as crowds tried to prevent the detention of anti-government demonstrators on September 20. Thousands of opposition supporters had gathered in cities across the country and in the capital, Minsk, for a sixth-straight week of protests to demand that authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka step down.
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