100,000 join march as protests continue in Belarus

A protest march in Belarus (AP Photo/TUT.by)

Tens of thousands of people calling for the authoritarian president of Belarus to resign have marched through the capital as the country’s wave of protests entered its seventh week.

Hundreds of soldiers blocked off the centre of Minsk, deploying water cannons and armoured personnel carriers and erecting barbed wire barriers. Protests also took place in several other cities, including Brest and Grodno.