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Belarus: Man Sets Himself on Fire in Front of Government Building 23 Jan 2021 A 35-year-old man has been hospitalized in grave condition after setting himself on fire in Minsk’s Independence Square on Friday, the Polish news channel Belsat TV reported. Eyewitness video footage of the incident began circulating on social media on Friday morning. One video “showed a man engulfed in a fiery ball rolling on the ground for several seconds, with what appears to be a gas canister nearby,” according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Another clip “shows police officers trying to cover him w...

share Print Arrests, beatings, forced exile, and even death. Belarusians have paid a high price for raising their voices in opposition since authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed a landslide victory and a sixth presidential term in an August 2020 election that hundreds of thousands of citizens contend was stolen. And now a leaked audio recording has emerged of what is said to be a senior Belarusian Interior Ministry official discussing plans to build an internment camp -- complete with barbed wire -- for political prisoners. That's not all: The person speaking also urges officers...