It was to become one of the defining images of the recent recrudescence of Belarus’s autocratic crackdown on civil liberties.“What are you doing?!,” the lady shrieks as riot police in helmets and armour drag an elderly man across the street, his face streaked with fear under a brown beret. “He’s an old man,” she pleads, as he is dragged inside a black police van. “Let him go!”The unknown man was one of 400 people arrested in Minsk on that grey, wet day in late March. The swift and ruthless crackdown by black-suited riot police was frighteningly effective: Only 700 people …read more
Source: The American Interest
