(ANSA-AFP) - BRUSSELS, DEC 16 - Belarus opposition leader
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya on Wednesday vowed the protest movement
against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko would prevail despite
a brutal crackdown by Minsk authorities, as she received the
EU's top rights prize. "We are bound to win and we will win,"
the exiled former presidential candidate said in Brussels,
accepting the Sakharov Prize on behalf of the opposition
movement. Belarus has been gripped by four months of
unprecedented anti-government demonstrations that erupted after
a disputed presidential election in August which saw Lukashenko
claim a sixth term in office. His opponents say the polls were
rigged and that political novice Tikhanovskaya, who ran in place
of her jailed husband was the true winner. (ANSA-AFP).
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