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Tsikhanouskaya: Around 350 people sentenced to death in Belarus under Lukashenka

Photo: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya holds a folder with the portrait of political prisoner Valeryia Kastsiuhova. Vilnius, Lithuania. September 11, 2025. Photo: Belsat
Photo: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya holds a folder with the portrait of political prisoner Valeryia Kastsiuhova. Vilnius, Lithuania. September 11, 2025. Photo: Belsat

Belarusian democratic leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said that around 350 people have been sentenced to death in Belarus over the three decades of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s rule. She made the statement on October 10, marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty.