Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s low score in official election results has prompted two nights of unprecedented protest action
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the main opposition candidate in Sunday’s disputed elections in Belarus, has left the country as clashes between heavily-armed police and demonstrators escalated during a second night of protests.
Tikhanovskaya is in Lithuania, its foreign minister Linas Linkevicius tweeted on Tuesday morning. He told the Guardian that she had been detained by Belarusian authorities for seven hours after filing a complaint against vote-rigging. She crossed the border towards morning, he said.
Continue reading…Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s low score in official election results has prompted two nights of unprecedented protest actionSvetlana Tikhanovskaya, the main opposition candidate in Sunday’s disputed elections in Belarus, has left the country as clashes between heavily-armed police and demonstrators escalated during a second night of protests.Tikhanovskaya is in Lithuania, its foreign minister Linas Linkevicius tweeted on Tuesday morning. He told the Guardian that she had been detained by Belarusian authorities for seven hours after filing a complaint against vote-rigging. She crossed the border towards morning, he said. Continue reading…