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October 29, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Police have charged veteran activist Nina Bahinskaja with staging an unauthorized protest after she was detained in Minsk with a Belarusian Popular Front sign, Belsat<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bahinskaja’s October 19 protest was remarkable since authorities hoped to avoid any street protests ahead of January’s presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 77-year-old activist was detained at the intersection of Kaz\u0142o\u016d Street and Independence Avenue in downtown Minsk as she headed for a nearby street, where the once-influential opposition force used to have its headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was handcuffed and taken to the Saviecki District Police Department. Officers held her for about three hours, but she refused to sign a detention report. The date of the trial is unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bahinskaja has been taking part in street rallies since 1988. She was a face of the 2020 peaceful protests against voter fraud and police brutality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2020, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka publicly advised security forces against arresting Bahinskaja and banning her from city squares. “She’s great, she’s a person of conviction,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, Bahinskaja was repeatedly arrested and fined. Authorities confiscated her land plot to cover the fines she refused to pay as a matter of principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Bahinskaja took to the street with an opposition flag in 2022, the German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost<\/em> described her as “the last Belarusian demonstrator.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Defiant senior activist Bahinskaja says police sent her to psychiatric clinic a few times<\/h3>\n
November 3, BPN. Nina Bahinskaja, a prominent 75-year-old opposition activist, told BPN that police officers, who detained her during her famous walks with a white-red-white flag in Minsk, took her to a mental hospital for examination several times. Most recently …<\/div>\n \n