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People argue with a plainclothes policemen as he tries with others to detain a protester (c.) during an action called 'Revolution via social network' in Minsk, Belarus, on July 3. Participants in the protest action are being detained in Minsk. Sergei Grits/AP
A policeman in a black jacket as tries to detain a protester (c.) in Minsk on July 3. The authoritarian government tried to thwart the protest by blocking access to Facebook, Twitter, and a major Russian social networking site used by the organizers. Sergei Grits/AP
Belarus plainclothes policemen detain protesters in Minsk on July 3. Police fired tear gas to break up the protest. According to the preliminary information, several dozen people have been seized. Dmitry Brushko/AP
Belarus plainclothes policemen detain protesters in Minsk on July 3. Sergei Grits/AP
Belarus plainclothes policemen detain a protester in Minsk on July 3. Police in Belarus attacked peaceful protesters in the latest series of rallies calling for the ouster of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, witnesses and a human rights group said. Anton Motolko/AP
Belarus plainclothes policemen detain people during an action entitled 'Revolution via social network' in Minsk on July 3. Sergei Grits/AP
People clap as they hold a rally to support the Belarusian opposition in front of the Belarusian embassy in Moscow on July 6. A Belarus opposition leader said the country's plight is so grave that protests against President Alexander Lukashenko will spread to his core supporters by the end of the year. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
Relatives and friends of arrested participants of the flash mob 'Revolution via social network' wait outside the prison walls to bring food and clothes to a detention center in Minsk on July 7. Sergei Grits/AP
A Belarusian detainee, arrested during the flash mob 'Revolution via social network,' peers out from a prison cell at a detention center in Minsk on July 7. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
A participant, arrested during the flash mob 'Revolution via Social Network,' is escorted by a Belarusian policeman at a court in Minsk on July 7. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
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The European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe have dismissed parliamentary elections in Belarus as a sham, further isolating the landlocked state from the West.
International monitors and the European Union on Monday dismissed Belarus's parliamentary election as a sham exercise, increasing the isolation of President Alexander Lukashenko.
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