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
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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 Lukashenkos 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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