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The scars of Belarusian protest – a photo essay

Polish photographer Jędrzej Nowicki has won the Luis Valtueña international award for humanitarian photography for his project The Scars about the repression of the 2020 protests in Belarus against Alexander Lukashenko’s regime. His work addresses the physical and psychological wounds inflicted on hundreds of people, and suggests the persistence of long-lasting scars that deepen the country’s divisions

The Scars is a record of what is now known as the largest anti-government unrest in the history of Belarus. Massive protests started in August 2020 and left deep traces on Belarusian society. President Alexander Lukashenko and his state apparatus responded with extreme brutality to the Belarusian resistance.

The walls of the detention centre at Okrestina Street in Minsk, Belarus. It is here that many protesters caught by the security forces were detained and tortured.

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Topic: [The Guardian] The scars of Belarusian protest – a photo essay (Read 373 times)

[The Guardian] The scars of Belarusian protest – a photo essay

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