Lithuania Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis and Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Vilnius on August 9. The United States, Britain, and Canada have announced new trade and financial sanctions on Belarus on the first anniversary of a presidential election that extended Alyaksandr Lukashenka's decades-long rule and sparked an unprecedented wave of protests amid allegations the vote was rigged. Lukashenka, in power since 1994, reacted to the protests by unleashing a brutal crackdown.
More than 32,000 people have been detained, thousands beaten by police on the streets and in detention, with torture alleged in many cases.
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