The candidate of opposition to Alexander Lukashenko appeared in two videos where she announces her departure to Lithuania.
The opponent is Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa, rival in the presidential election in the authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, announced on Tuesday have made the choice “difficult” to leave in Lithuania, after two days of opposition demonstrations violently repressed.
A video recorded “under pressure”
The young woman of 37 years said to have taken “only” this “very difficult decision”. “I know that much me to condemn it, many will understand me, much me hate it,” she said. She has raised her two children, 5 and 10 years, that it had already been sent abroad, fearing pressures. The minister of Lithuanian foreign Affairs, Linas Linkevicius, said that Sveltana Tikhanovskaïa was “safe” with her children.
Shortly after the State agency in belarus Belta has released other images not dated, showing the opposition leader read a statement calling for the “respect of the law” and not to protest. For the time being, nothing allows us to say when that video was recorded, as the note Release.
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His allies have immediately said that this video had been recorded “under pressure”, probably on Monday evening, when it was kept for several hours at the headquarters of the electoral Commission, when she came to file a complaint. “During three hours, it was only with the representatives of the security forces,” explained Maria Kolesnikova, a figure of the election campaign of the opposition.
according To its supporters, it would have spent several hours, during which the assumption of his disappearance had worried the Belarusians. Coming out of the central Committee, Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa was headed to his car, declaring : “I’ve made my decision”, as explained in further Release. She has no given of news since. It is the minister of Lithuanian foreign Affairs that broke the silence, confirming her arrival via Twitter yesterday morning.
“forced departure”
Sveltana Tikhanovskaïa, which has galvanized crowds during the campaign, had disappeared Monday evening while on a second night of protests suppressed by the police to fire into Minsk and other cities, killing one. The border guards belarusian said that she had crossed the border in the middle of the night and broadcast a video in this sense. According to his team, he is nevertheless a forced departure under pressure from the authorities. “She had no choice,” said AFP Olga Kovalkova, an ally of Tikhanovskaïa.
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She has emerged as a rival unexpectedly in the face to president Alexander Lukashenko, 65, in power for 26 years. It was replaced in the presidential race of her husband, Sergei, a video-blogger in sight, imprisoned in may.
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After the vote on Sunday, she urged the regime to “relinquish power”, contesting the official results giving Lukashenko the winner with 80,08% of the vote and not him giving that 10%. The opposition did not participate in the demonstrations violently repressed Sunday and Monday night by the anti-riot police, who have used stun grenades and rubber bullets.
