Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya demands news of her imprisoned husband
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Friday, March 8, marched to the country's embassy in Lithuania, holding a photo of her imprisoned husband and demanding information about him after a year of being incommunicado.
- AP Photo / Mindaugas Kulbis
Siarhei Tsikhanouski is among several prominent imprisoned opposition figures whom relatives say have not been heard from in a year or more.
“For exactly a year, neither I nor my children know about the fate of Siarhei, who is being held in prison by the Belarusian authorities in complete isolation,” Tsikhanouskaya said.
She called on the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to intervene with Belarus about the fate of political prisoners.
“The incommunicado regime is a way of torturing not only our heroes behind bars, but also their families," she said.
Tsikhanouski has been behind bars since being arrested in 2020 after announcing plans to challenge Aliaksandr Lukashenka in that year's election.
