2017 Belarusian protests

When

17 Feb 2017 – 21 Oct 2017

Kind

Protest

Coordinates

53.53° N, 28.05° E

Description

series of political demonstrations

Cause

Decree No. 3

Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.

Series of political demonstrations

The 2017 Belarusian protests were a series of demonstrations and street protests against President Alexander Lukashenko that broke out in late February 2017. Protesters mobilized against a tax levied against the unemployed in Belarus. Demonstrations and marches were held in sites throughout the country with sizes of several hundred to several thousand gathering at a given time.

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• Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2000 people spread the march of the 2017 Belarusian protests from the capital of Minsk to other cities in Belarus against a 2015 tax law”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “début des manifestations de 2017 en Biélorussie”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page