Scores Detained as Students March against Belarus President

Scores Detained as Students March against Belarus President
Police detain students during a protest against presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, on Sept. 1, 2020. AP Photo
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KYIV, Ukraine—Authorities in Belarus detained scores of protesters on Tuesday as university students took to the streets of the capital of Minsk on the first day of classes to demand that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko resign after an election the opposition has denounced as rigged.

Hundreds of students gathered outside universities across Minsk and marched through the city center to the Education Ministry, continuing a fourth straight week of mass post-election protests.