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Eugene

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Mon Jul 20, 2020, 11:41 AM Jul 2020

Belarus presidential candidate sends her children abroad after threats

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS JULY 20, 2020 / 10:16 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Belarus presidential candidate sends her children abroad after threats

Andrei Makhovsky
3 MIN READ

MINSK (Reuters) - The leading opposition presidential candidate in Belarus has sent her children abroad to an undisclosed location in the EU after receiving threats they would be taken away unless she quits the race, an opposition journalist said.

Svetlana Tikhanouskaya launched her bid to unseat President Alexander Lukashenko in the Aug. 9 election after her husband, a popular anti-Lukashenko blogger, was arrested in May.

She has since become Lukashenko’s surprise main challenger, earning the endorsement last week of two leading opposition figures who were barred from standing themselves. On Sunday, she held her first official election campaign rally, attended by thousands of people.

“We brought the kids out because they genuinely threatened her. They threatened to arrest her and take away her kids,” opposition journalist Nataliya Radina said in a video posted on YouTube.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-candidate-children/belarus-presidential-candidate-sends-her-children-abroad-after-threats-idUSKCN24L1Q6

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