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Chancellor Gabrielius Landsbergis says that Lithuania does not intend to consider the demands of the Belarus Attorney General’s Office to extradite former presidential candidate Sviatlan Cichanouskaya.
In a circulated comment, G. Landsbergis emphasizes that “Lithuania has been and will be a masonry wall from which all democratic forces persecuted by the regimes will find refuge.”
“So everyone who has found asylum in Lithuania can feel confident that they will not be handed over to the regimes, not for their fight for democracy, not for freedom of expression or religion. And we can tell the Belarusian regime that hell it will be frozen before we consider their demands, ”Landsbergis says.
Lithuania has been and will be a masonry wall from which all democratic forces persecuted by the regimes will find refuge.
The Belarusian Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Friday that it had sent a request to Lithuania to extradite former presidential candidate Sviatlan Cichanouskaya, as he was to be prosecuted for “crimes against the rule of law, public and state security”.
S. Cichanouskaja withdrew to Lithuania after elections on August 9 last year, in which authoritarian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko was declared the winner. 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 from opposition supporters, which the regime is trying to put down with tough measures.
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