{"id":10818,"date":"2020-08-11T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:33:49","slug":"belarus-tikhanovskaya-and-her-children-safe-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=10818","title":{"rendered":"Belarus‘ Tikhanovskaya and her children safe in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Svetlana Tikhanovskaya \/ AP<\/p><\/div>\n

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the opposition candidate in Belarus‘ presidential election, is in Lithuania, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevi\u010dius said on Tuesday morning. He later said that her children were also in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe arrived in Lithuania and is safe now,\u201d he told BNS on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Linkevi\u010dius later told LRT TV that Tikhanovskaya arrived in Lithuania on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe night was tense, she was detained for a very long time, some seven hours. We didn’t know the circumstances of her detention nor her whereabouts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a threat [to Tikhanovkaya]. After I’d been trying to contact her for several hours, unsuccessfully, we started a search. There was a lot of communicating through\u00adout the night, everyone was concerned,\u201d Linkevi\u010dius told LRT TV. \u201cShe is now in a safe country, which is the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On Monday, Tikhanovskaya refused to concede victory to Alexander Lukashenko whom the officially announced results gave 80 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

Opponents to Lukashenko’s autocratic rule maintain the results were rigged and Tikhanovskaya said she was the real winner.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Minsk and other Belarusian cities to protest the result of Sunday’s controversial presidential election.<\/p>\n

Tikhanovskaya, a 37-year-old teacher of English, decided to run for president after her husband, Sergey Tikhanovsky, a popular blogger, was arrested. She has promised to hold a new, fair election if elected.<\/p>\n

A number of members of her election campaign have been arrested over the past week, too.<\/p>\n

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Mindaugo Bridge in Vilnius \/ S. \u017di\u016bra\/LRT<\/p><\/div>\n

On Monday, four bridges in Vilnius were illuminated in the white\u2013red\u2013white colours of the Belarusian flag used by the opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cVilnius is sending a message of support to the democracy-seeking Belarus,\u201d the city’s authorities said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija: Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the opposition candidate in Belarus‘ presidential election, is in Lithuania, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevi\u010dius said on Tuesday morning. He later said that her children were also in the country. \u201cShe arrived in Lithuania … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}