Travel restrictions in the west enjoy wide support and are in response to a global health emergency, not spurious political reasons put in place by someone who appears to be an illegitimate leader.
Your ‘unpersoned’ comment is laughable.
What has changed in the last year to prompt these protests against him anyway?
The obvious answer is nothing, that the agitation is stirred up by the West, perhaps since he didn't bend the knee and agree to COVID lockdowns despite being offered $940 million:
https://eng.belta.by/president/view/belarus-president-unwill...
Meanwhile, lockdown in the West has clearly failed - Sweden and Ukraine, with weak or no lockdowns, have a lower per-capita deathtoll than countries that did lockdown: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
And deaths are only up 6% YoY in Sweden and Ukraine, basically in line with the aging of the population and the effects of a once-a-decade flu variant (similar in mortality to Swine Flu wave in 2009).
The West is trying to start another color revolution in Belarus, as they did in Ukraine, where the US Government officials were on the street handing out sandwiches to protestors.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/1213/Russia-crie...
Is Ukraine better off since their revolution? Yes, I think so (I live here). Would Belarus be better off without Lukashenko? Possibly. However, since 2014, several million Ukrainians have fled the country to work in the EU, and a large chunk of territory has been lost.
I'm suggest that there are layers of deception and propaganda at work here that we, as intelligent IT personnel, should be aware of if we want to comment on these articles.
If you see travel restrictions during a pandemic as tyranny, I'm not sure I can help you.
Scroll through the timeline of these Belarusians, who are literally risking their lives by exposing and combating these situations. Really take some time to grasp the situation there.
https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova https://twitter.com/franakviacorka https://mobile.twitter.com/Tsihanouskaya
Australian citizens generally cannot leave their country either, for over a year.
Given that Belarus had no COVID lockdowns or restrictions, people there have enjoyed comparatively more freedom over the past year compared to the average Western citizen.
The West also takes down airliners in attempts to apprehend journalists. If you have the wrong political opinions, you can lose your job, and be unpersoned by corporate groups with ties to the Government.
The West no longer has the moral high ground and we should be aware of the propaganda levels of the world we are now living in.
I'm not defending Russia or Belarus. They are mafia states. They are just less sophisticated operators without the global media on their side.