5. Belarus
The latest of President Alexander Lukashenko’s attempts at improving the Belarus economy, a tax on unemployment, has resulted in series of protests in the country’s capital. The streets of Minsk have been a stage for several clashes between the protestors and the police. The opposition leaders say that the tax is absurd and that is punishing people for being unable to find work. The government, on the other hand, claims that it will motivate them to look harder and has banned the protests. The police have arrested dozens of people, some of them claiming to be beaten by the policemen in the process and are cracking down on several organizations suspected to be behind the demonstrations, making it one of the countries without freedom of assembly.
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