The leader of the Belarusian opposition, Svetlana Tikhanovska, will speak in front of the European Union parliamentary committee of the Bulgarian parliament.
She will tell about the resistance of the Belarusian democratic forces against the war in Ukraine and the regime in Belarus. Svetlana Tsihanovska, who has been living outside Belarus since August 11, 2020, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after running against the head of state, Alexander Lukashenko, in the 2020 presidential elections. After the vote, large protests began, with the opposition accusing the president of having won by fraud.
BGNES reminds that only ten days ago, the well-known opposition activist Igor Lednik died in a prison in Belarus. He was serving a sentence for "slander" against President Alexander Lukashenko. Igar Lednik, who was 64, was a member of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Gramada), an activist and journalist. Svetlana Tikhanovska condemned the "injustice and incredible tragedy". "The regime is killing Belarusians in prison who want to change the life of their country for the better," Tikhanovska also said. /BGNES
