Prague protest in support of Belarus opposition

Hundreds of people rallied in the Czech capital Prague on Sunday in support of anti-government demonstrators in Belarus.

Mikhail Lazarevich, a Belarusian student in Prague, attended the event because "some of the things happening in Belarus are just terrible."

He said the way police treated protesters in Belarus in recent days had been "immoral".

The protests followed elections last week that resulted - according to officials - in a landslide victory for the country's longtime ruler, President Alexander Lukashenko.

Protesters claim the election was a sham.

Lukashenko on Sunday vehemently rejected any possibility of holding a rerun of the vote.

The authoritarian president has ruled the ex-Soviet nation with an iron fist since 1994, repressing opposition figures and independent news media.

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