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August 13, 2020 14 mins

More than 7000 people in Belarus arrested in the few days of violent protests after The Presidential election.   President Lukashenko has derailed democracy in Belarus pulling off an election fraud that's so obvious his Country can't swallow it. 

People want freedom in Belarus.   Will Lukashenko be able to brutally put them down or is he finished ?

In this Back Story with Dana Lewis we speak to Andrei Sannikov who ran against Lukashenko in 2010 and was jailed and tortured. 

He says Lukashenko is a crazed dictator and The West must pressure him out of office and support he people of Belarus. 

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