Belarusian Police Fire Into Air As Protesters Arrested In City Of Brest

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.