Minsk, Belarus (CNN) Authorities in Belarus say 6,700 people have been arrested and at least one person has been killed in the violent aftermath that followed longtime President Alexander Lukashenko's reelection , a contest that independent observers have criticized as neither free nor fair. Women wearing white march in Minsk, Belarus on Wednesday, in protest against police violence during recent rallies against the results of the country's presidential election. "We are outraged by the police violence towards peaceful protesters and journalists," United Nations human rights experts said in a statement Thursday. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya holds a news conference the day after Belarus' presidential election in Minsk on Monday. "They have used water cannons, stun grenades, rubber bullets, tear gas," Alex Kokcharov, a political risk analyst at IHS Markit, who specializes in Belarus, told CNN.

Source: CNN August 13, 2020 04:32 UTC