Return to Belarus, yes of course, but when, I do not know yet, says Tichanovskij, to reporters in Lithuania, where he was taken after being unexpectedly released.
In Lithuania, scenes of joy unfolded on Saturday when Tichanovskij was received by his wife, Svetlana Tichanovskaja, who took over the role of opposition leader in exile when her husband was imprisoned. According to Tichanovskij, she will remain opposition leader.
The opposition leader is Svetlana Tichanovskaja, my wife. And I will not question that, he says.
Tichanovskij was imprisoned in connection with the presidential election in 2020, where he stood as a candidate, but where Aleksandr Lukasjenko's regime chose to imprison him. He was sentenced to a total of 18 years in prison in trials that were considered summary by independent human rights groups.
