Exiled Belarusian opposition leader says political prisoners are detained daily
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a Belarusian opposition leader currently living in exile in the United Kingdom, joins Yahoo News Reporter Niamh Cavanagh to talk about her hopes for the future of democracy in her home country. Tsikhanouskaya tells Yahoo News that she believes free and fair elections will not be possible under current President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994 and is closely allied with Russia.
Read "The decline of Lukashenko: Belarus’s opposition leader breaks down health rumors, Putin’s propaganda and the future" on Yahoo News: https://yhoo.it/3MeIO7d
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