In Belarus, the Belarusian state agency Belta released a video on Tuesday of the opponent Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa reading a paper asking her supporters not to demonstrate. According to his supporters, it would be a recording made under threat.
In the video posted on Belta's Telegram account, which is undated and appears to be recorded in an office, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya reads in a monotonous voice a text calling for "respect for the law" and not to "descend into the law. street ”. "We consider that this video was recorded under pressure from the security forces," a close ally of the opponent, Maria Kolesnikova, reacted to the press.
Abans deixar-la marxar in Lituània, it seemed that when Tikhanóvskaia left a comunicate, the result of the elections was accepted. #Tikhanovskaya https://t.co/YKHzHo93s0 pic.twitter.com/9dMLLgzdnh
- Miquel Cabal Guarro (@miqcab) August 11, 2020Her imprisoned husband
Sitting on a black sofa with a window behind her covered with vertical blinds, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, 37, never looks at the camera filming her. Before the broadcast of this recording, she had announced earlier in another video, facing the camera this time, to have left Belarus for Lithuania, without launching an appeal not to demonstrate.
According to her team, the video broadcast by Belta was probably recorded on Monday evening, when the opponent was detained for several hours at the headquarters of the Electoral Commission. "For three hours, she was alone with the representatives of the security forces (...) in these conditions, anyone who has her husband in prison would have recorded such a video," said Maria Kolesnikova.
Tikhanovskaya led a campaign for the presidency that mobilized never-before-seen crowds in Belarus, replacing her husband, Sergei, a popular video blogger jailed since May. The announcement of the victory of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 26 years, sparked demonstrations violently repressed Sunday and Monday evening.
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