“The wife says to the daughter:“ It’s your dad who came! ”She rushes at me, and we are in tears together,” said Tikhanovsky, after which he could not speak further.
Instead, his wife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the leader of the Belarusian opposition, answered the question instead. According to her, their daughter did not recognize her father, as he changed a lot in prison, and could not believe that it was really he.
Now the children are reduced again that the father was nearby, although they wrote letters when he was in prison, said Tikhanovskaya.
Context
Tikhanovsky – Belarusian blogger, author of YouTube channel “A country for life“. In May 2020, Tikhanovsky announced his intention to participate in the presidential election in Belarus, in the same month he was taken into custody.
The CEC refused to register Tikhanovsky as a presidential candidate, after which his wife Svetlana announced his intention to run for president. Tikhanovskaya was registered as a candidate, around her candidates the headquarters of other opposition candidates united, who were not allowed to the elections.
The presidential election in Belarus took place on August 9. According to official figures, won on them Since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko, who was under the authorities, voted 80.1% of voters for him. The second place with 10.1% of the vote was taken by Tikhanovskaya. At the same time, alternative ecsitla They showed the confident victory of Tikhanovskaya.
After the elections in Belarus, mass protests of the disagreements began with their results (several hundred thousand people participated at the peak at the rallies, and protest activity fell since the beginning of 2021).
December 14, 2021 The court sentenced Tikhanovsky To 18 years in a colony of reinforced regime.
On June 19, 14 political prisoners, including Tikhanovsky, were released in Belarus. It is reported that this happened due to the visit to Minsk by the special representative of US President Kit Kellog.
