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Belarus Sentences Opposition Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 Years for Treason

HeadlineMar 07, 2023

A court in Belarus has convicted opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on charges of treason, sentencing her in absentia to 15 years in prison. In 2020, Tsikhanouskaya ran for president against Belarus’s longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko after her husband Sergei was jailed while running for president. She fled Belarus to exile in neighboring Lithuania after the election. 

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