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Belarus opposition leader vows victory at EU prize ceremony

Despite a brutal crackdown by Minsk authoritie

16 December, 16:03
(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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