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Activists and journalists are being rounded up and jailed in Belarus ahead of next month’s elections.
People say it’s the most brutal crackdown the country has ever known.
President Lukashenko is has been in power for more than a quarter of a century, but opposition to the authoritarian leader is growing.
Our Europe correspondent Jean Mackenzie has been given rare access to the country often described as Europe’s Last Dictatorship.
Produced by Sara Monetta, filmed and edited by Andy Smythe.
BBC News
#Belarus. As I recently wrote, "the human capacity for patience and endurance, in the face of blatant injustice, is not without limits". There are clearly tensions visible in the Belarusian society. People cannot accept such level of injustice. The extent of it is astonishing pic.twitter.com/7WFiUz3wof
— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) July 14, 2020
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