The leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, speaking to the Czech Senate, proposed to create an international tribunal to investigate the alleged crimes of President Alexander Lukashenko and his environment. Reports about it Deutsche Welle.
politician compared the behavior of the authorities of the country in relation to citizens with “terror, which our country has not seen since Stalin” and stressed that only international efforts can be terminated. “I call for the cessation of investments and loans to Belarusian state companies and banks, which, in fact, are the source of income of the dictatorial regime,” said Tikhanovskaya.
At the same time, she stressed that protests in the country were not over, and despite the decline in their number in winter, more than 300 days have been continuing. “But there was no day without arrests and violence by regime – tens of thousands passed through prisons,” the opposition was added.
Earlier, the leader of the Belarusian opposition said that the Supreme Representative of the European Union on Foreign Affairs Jozep Borrel promised to introduce new sanctions against Minsk because of the incident with the airline airline Ryanair. She explained the opposition structures themselves insisted on new restrictions, but noted that the ultimate goal of the fight against Lukashenko should become “fair elections and democratic reforms.”
In Belarus, mass protests continued for more than six months after the presidential election on August 9, 2020. The reason for them was charged with falsifications when conducting voting. Shares were rigidly suppressed by the police and riot police. Tens of thousands of people were detained, many told about torture and beating in insulators. Episodic local protests occur in the country so far.