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“The Attorney General of Belarus sent a request to the Attorney General of Lithuania to extradite Sviatlan Cichanouskaya to be prosecuted for crimes against the rule of law, public and state security,” the prosecution said.
S. Cichanouskaja withdrew to Lithuania after the August 9 elections last year, which were announced by authoritarian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko. His children were taken to Lithuania before the elections.
The opposition and Western democracies claim that the presidential elections in Belarus were rigged. Since the elections, Belarus has been plagued by massive protests by opposition supporters, which the regime is trying to put down with harsh measures.
Law enforcement forces loyal to the regime state that they have received “information that people in the immediate vicinity of S. Cichanouskaya are preparing for massive disturbances and occupation of state institutions in the Gomel area.”
Cichanouskaya emphasized that she had always advocated for peaceful methods.
“During the pre-election program and during the protests that lasted several months after the elections, Sviatlan Cichanouskaya’s team communicated and continues to communicate with many Belarusians.” Some of them have always been and still are focused on radical measures, but Sviatlana Cichanouskaya it has never been involved in the development of such plans, “she said in a comment to her office.
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