Presidential candidate Tikhanovskaya sentenced to 15 years in prison

According to the Belarusian state agency Belta, as a result of the hearing in the Minsk City Court, the judge ruled in the absence of Tikhanovskaya, who lives in Europe.

Tikhanovskaya, who is accused of unconstitutional conspiracy to seize power, creating and running an extremist organization, calling for and distributing sanctions against Belarus, harming the country’s national security, and making public calls to seize state power. treason.

The court sentenced Tikhanovskaya to 15 years in prison and a fine of about $12,000.

In addition to Tikhanovskaya, former Culture Minister Pavel Latushko, who was living abroad on the same charges, was sentenced to 18 years in prison, and members of the organization known as “Management Acquisition Coordination Board”, Mariya Moroz, Olga Kavalkova, Sergey Dılevskiy, were each sentenced to 12 years in prison.

TİKHANOVSKAYA RECEIVED 10.12 PERCENT OF THE VOTES IN 2020

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was a candidate in the presidential elections held on August 9, 2020 in Belarus.

Tikhanovskaya received 10.12 percent of the vote in the election won by Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Tikhanovskaya organized opposition protest actions in the country, after a while she left the country and began to live in Lithuania. (AA)