{"id":161799,"date":"2020-09-24T03:24:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/24\/protesters-clash-with-police-in-belarus-after-lukashenko-sworn-in-again\/"},"modified":"2020-09-24T03:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:24:49","slug":"protesters-clash-with-police-in-belarus-after-lukashenko-sworn-in-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=161799","title":{"rendered":"Protesters clash with police in Belarus after Lukashenko sworn in again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water cannon and stun grenades used by riot squad after opposition denounce president\u2019s secret ceremony as illegitimate and \u2018a farce\u2019Riot police clashed with protesters in Minsk on Wednesday evening, using water cannon and stun grenades, hours after the inauguration of Alexander Lukashenko for another term as president.Lukashenko held the ceremony without announcements or publicity earlier in the day, apparently to avoid it becoming a magnet for protesters. Opposition leaders and European politicians immediately denounced his inauguration as illegitimate. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/23\/lukashenko-sworn-in-belarus-president-secretive-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\">Protesters clash with police in Belarus after Lukashenko sworn in again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water cannon and stun grenades used by riot squad after opposition denounce president\u2019s secret ceremony as illegitimate and \u2018a farce\u2019Riot police clashed with protesters in Minsk on Wednesday evening, using water cannon and stun grenades, hours after the inauguration of Alexander Lukashenko for another term as president.Lukashenko held the ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}