Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, awarded the EU’s Sakharov Prize in 2020 for freedom of thought, is widely recognised as the real winner of that year’s presidential election in Belarus – a country infamous as Europe’s last dictatorship. The election laid bare Belarusian democracy as a sham.
In this joint event with Edinburgh University’s Political Union she talks about the ongoing brutality of Aleksandr Lukashenko’s regime and the enormity of the struggle to achieve a viable democracy. She also discusses the actions big and small we can take in Scotland and the U.K. to show our solidarity with the movement for democracy in Belarus.
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