'I didn't think I'd end up in a Solzhenitsyn novel': The brutal aftermath of the Belarus protests

"Crouch down!" a female prison guard shouted to Tamara Shpakova, forcing her to strip for a cavity search after she was picked up by police outside a supermarket in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, in August.  

"I said: 'I can't, my leg is broken,'" the 35-year-old engineer told The Telegraph.
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For 24 hours Ms Shpakova, a tall woman with bright blue hair, was in custody, passing out from the pain of a broken kneecap, lying on a pile of men bludgeoned by truncheons in a police van, trying to get some rest on the cement floor of her prison cell - read more here:
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Belarus, one of the sleepiest former Soviet republics where crossing the street at a red light is unheard of and demonstrators clean up after a rally, descended into chaos last month after President Alexander Lukashenko unleashed thousands of riot police officers on his own citizens who had cast doubt on the landslide victory at the polls that extended his 26-year rule.  

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