Footage shows brutal police crackdown on protesters denouncing election rigging, with 1 death reported; 3,000 activists nabbed; challenger Tikhanovskaya demands leader yield power

Opposition supporters say they suspect election officials will manipulate results of Sunday’s vote to give Lukashenko, who has vowed to crush any protests, a sixth term

Longtime ruler running for sixth term had faced rare challenge from English teacher and stay-at-home mom Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who decided to run after her husband was jailed

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a 37-year-old English teacher, is standing in, after authorities barred her husband from running and then jailed him; vote widely expected to be rigged

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, 37, emerges as unlikely challenger to dictator's 26-year rule, holding largest opposition rallies since Soviet era; says she is 'symbol of change'

Lukashenko has previously disputed seriousness of the infection and said fear of the disease is 'psychosis'

Protests against a Belarus restaurant have turned violent and anti-Semitic, challenging local Jewish population and the country's authoritarian government