World News: Belarus' police capture dissenters at restricted exhibit

Police in the Belarusian capital have started wide-scale captures dissidents who had accumulated for a prohibited show that they trusted would expand on a rising flood of resistance of the previous Soviet republic's dictator government. Around 700 individuals had attempted to walk along Minsk's primary road, yet were obstructed by a cordon of uproar police using clubs and holding shields. After a standoff, captures started. "They're beating the members, dragging ladies by the hair to transports. I could raced to a close-by patio," demonstrator Alexander Ponomarev said. There were no quick figures on what number of individuals were arrested. Prior, police attacked the workplace of the human-rights aggregate Vesna. Around 30 of its activists were confined, said Oleg Gulak of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee. In the days going before the showing, more than 100 resistance supporters were sentenced to prison terms of three to 15 days, Vesna detailed before the assault...