2023-05-29 10:07:01
Democratic leader of Belarus Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya in a video message dedicated to the third anniversary of her husband’s arrest Sergey told that always when interlocutors on foreign trips ask: how is he doing, he does not know what to answer.
“I don’t know if he is alive. There has been no information about Serhiy for three months now,” Tsikhanovskaya said.
The politician noted that back in February, propagandists spread rumors on their channels that he died in prison.
“And, of course, seeing this, my heart was just torn by worry for him and his life,” Tsikhanovskaya said.
She emphasized that “terrible things” are happening to political prisoners in prisons: the politician spoke about the incessant torture of political prisoners and recalled the recent death of a political prisoner Nikolai Klimovich.
“I read terrible news every day, and at this moment I think about Sergei,” she said. — (…) During our three-year separation with him, I visited such a number of countries that I could not even imagine before. Although, in fact, I dream of returning home and living with Sergei and my children in free Belarus.”
Tsikhanovskaya confirmed that she is holding on today thanks to Belarusians.
“Once again I want to say thank you to all of you: those who believe and support Sergey; to those who believe and support me; those who support themselves, their loved ones or even strangers who are in a difficult situation,” she said.
Who is Siarhei Tsikhanovsky
- Husband of opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya Siarhei Tsikhanovsky in 2020, he was a popular blogger, the creator of the “Country for Life” project. His stories on the YouTube channel had hundreds of thousands of views. He traveled around the country and exposed the negligence of officials, recorded conversations with people. In May 2020, Sergei announced his presidential ambitions. On May 29, 2020, he was detained as a result of provocation at a picket in Hrodna. Since then he has been in prison.
- Tsikhanouski was accused of organizing mass riots, inciting enmity, obstructing the work of the Central Election Commission. At the court on December 14, 2021, he received 18 years of imprisonment. In June 2022, the KGB added Tsikhanovsky to the list of persons “involved in terrorist activities.”
The first letter arrived from Bialiatski from the colony
Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski, a political prisoner, was sent to Horat colony No. 9 at the end of April. At the end of May, he was able to send his first letter from there.
His address: 213410 Gorki, IC -9. Squad number 8. Ales Viktorovich Bialiatski.
On March 3, the Lenin District Court of Minsk sentenced Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison, and his colleagues Valentin Stefanovich and Vladimir Labkovich to 9 and 7 years, respectively.
The review of the appeal took place on April 21. The Supreme Court left the verdict unchanged.
Human rights defenders have been held in prison for more than 22 months.
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