Catch up locals' news in English
2020-08-12T06:31:04.445Z
Svetlana Tichanovskaya fled to Lithuania after losing the contested election in Belarus. In a video where she reads inside, she urges Belarusians to stop protesting and "respect the law". Her co-workers now believe that the video was recorded under pressure.
- We believe that she was given the choice of either being imprisoned in Minsk or leaving the country. She left the country and recorded a new video where she says that she made that decision completely voluntarily, says SVT's correspondent Bert Sundström.
See Tichanovskaya's questioned statement in the clip.
Source: svt
