The authorities had laid barbed wire on the streets, and deployed military vehicles, prisoner vans, water cannons, helmeted riot police and plain clothes officers with masks and truncheons to try to contain the demonstrations. Local media also showed protests and detentions in other cities. Footage from local media outlet TUT.BY showed a masked man beating a protester as he lay on the ground. Plain clothes officers could be seen smashing the glass door of a cafe to get at protesters sheltering inside. Internal Affairs Minister Yuri Karayev defended the actions of the security forces.

Source: bd News24 September 06, 2020 20:15 UTC