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“Lithuania was and will be a masonry wall, in which all democratic forces persecuted by the regimes will find refuge. Therefore, all those who have found asylum in Lithuania can feel confident that they will not be handed over to the regimes, not even by their fight for democracy, or for freedom of expression or religion. And we can tell the Belarusian regime that hell will freeze before we consider their demands, “Landsbergis said, commenting on the request of the Belarusian Prosecutor General’s Office.
The Belarusian general announced on Friday that Lithuania had submitted a request to extradite the country’s opposition leader, Sviatlan Cichanouskaya, as she was accused of allegedly organizing mass riots and riots in the Gomel region, the Belarusian state news agency reports. BelTA.
Belarusian prosecutors have accused Cichanouskaya and four other supporters of organizing mass riots in Gomel, conspiring to occupy local government buildings and appointing an illegal municipal administration.
Prosecutors are seeking to arrest Mr. Cichanouskaja and other suspects in the case.
In Belarus on August 9. Presidential elections were held, the results of which are considered rigged. Its winner was Lukashenko, the longtime leader of Belarus. According to official data, it collected 80.1 percent. the opposition candidate S. Cichanouskaya – 10.12 percent.
As soon as the first results of the vote were announced, mass protests began in Minsk and other Belarusian cities, which turned into clashes with the militia. Thousands of people were arrested and the militias used rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons against the protesters. The protests continue to this day.
Shortly after the protests began, S. Cichanouskaja withdrew to Lithuania.
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