Strasbourg (France) (AFP) – Former Belarusian political prisoner Sergei Tikhanovsky, imprisoned for almost five years and released this summer, tells the European Parliament in Strasbourg that a “transfer of power” in Belarus is “imminent”, but warns Europe must “become an active player” in the country. The popular opposition blogger, sentenced to 18 years in 2020 for challenging Belarus’s long-time autocratic leader Alexander Lukashenko, is the husband of the exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
