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“He has arrived in Lithuania and is safe at the moment,” the minister told BNS.
The Belarusian portal tut.by announces on Facebook that the headquarters of S. Tikhanovskoya does not comment on this information.
Tihanovskaya refused on Monday to acknowledge Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko’s victory in the presidential elections. She declared herself the winner of the elections and asked him to hand over power. Protests against falsification of election results took place in Belarus over several nights.
Tihanovskaya, 37, an English teacher, decided to run for office in the presidential election after her husband, popular blogger Sergei Tichanovsky, was arrested. In case of victory, he promised to hold new free elections.
Several members of his staff were also arrested last week.
In Belarus, one person was killed in clashes between protesters and police, according to the SNB, held for the second night in a row after the controversial presidential elections at the weekend, which gave the authoritarian leader A. Lukashenko the sixth term.
Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Minsk, on Monday night, saying that Lukashenko had stolen the election victory from an unexpected political rookie, Tikhanovskaya.
The police used rubber bullets, incendiary grenades and tear gas against the protesters, but the protesters responded with stones and pyrotechnic cartridges, in addition to erecting barricades, reported AFP news agency reporters, protesters and witnesses to the events.
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