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Protest in Warsaw, October 23, 2020 photo: VSquare
The Constitutional Tribunal’s decision to ban abortion in cases of foetal defects resulted in a wave of pro-women’s rights protests in Warsaw and other cities.
Rally in support of Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya and the joint campaign headquarters. 30 July 2020, Minsk, Belarus || By Homoatrox - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
The week of protests has shown that the situation is completely different than the well-known crises of the past: the revolution of Solidarity in Poland, the Arab Spring, the Ukrainian Maidan.