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The winner of the title “Miss Belarus 2008” Olga Khizhinkova was arrested on 8 November in Minsk in a protest on Sunday. She was tried under the article on participation in an unauthorized event and spent 42 days in prison in total, reported the TUT.BY portal.
The winner of the title “Miss Belarus 2008” and the former press secretary of the Brest football club “Dynamo” Olga Khizhinkova was released from the detention center in Zhodino. after administrative arrestsaid the Belarusian portal TUT.BY.
Khizhinkova was arrested on November 8 in Minsk in another protest action on Sunday. She was tried three times under the article on participation in an unauthorized event, adding new conditions of administrative arrest. He spent 42 days in prison, the portal notes.
TUT.BY, journalist Aleksandra Kvitkevich spent 10 days with Khizhinkova in a cell. According to her, she was held in terrible conditions. Before the end of the arrest, Khizhinkova was transferred to Zhodino.
Since August 9, the mass protests of those who disagree with the voting results in the presidential elections have not abated in Belarus. According to official data, at that time they were won by the head of state Alexander Lukashenko, for whom 80.1% of the voters voted. Second place with 10.1% of the vote was held by Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. At the same time, alternative exit polls showed the opposite picture: Tikhanovskaya’s confident victory.
The Belarusian security forces violently dispersed the demonstrations using explosions, rubber bullets and water cannons. During the protests, hundreds of protesters were injured and wounded. According to official figures, four protesters died. Tikhanovskaya stated on November 28 that eight people had died during protests in Belarus.
Lukashenka assumed the presidency on September 23. For the first time in the history of Belarus, the opening ceremony was not announced or broadcast on television. Several states, including the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Denmark, Ukraine and the Czech Republic, did not recognize Lukashenko’s inauguration.
On October 2, the European Union imposed restrictive measures against 40 people responsible for falsifying the results of the presidential elections and forcingly suppressing peaceful protests. On November 6, the EU imposed sanctions against Lukashenko, who considers himself President of Belarus, and 14 other Belarusian officials. Ukraine joined the sanctions.
EU Foreign Ministers 19 November agreed to intensify work on the third package sanctions against Belarus. The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that sanctions will be imposed against natural and legal persons.
On December 16, the ambassadors of the EU countries approved the third package of sanctions against Belarus.
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