"I conspired with millions of Belarusian voters to seize democratic power from a dictator who has turned our country into a vassal state of President Vladimir Putin’s Russia. I only became a presidential candidate because Lukashenko’s secret police locked up my husband, Siarhai, for daring to oppose him. And now I find myself fighting to rally our country’s democrats in the face of unprecedented efforts to silence them."

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

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imprisoned for over 18 months, it has emerged that she is now in hospital, in ICU with a potentially life threatening illness.

Maria's family addressed the authorities:

“We have every right to know the truth about ... Maria’s health, the reasons for her hospitalization and the conditions in which she spent her last days in the punishment cell”.
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