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| Husband of Belarusian opposition figure Tikhanovskaya handed 18 years in jail | Husband of Belarusian opposition figure Tikhanovskaya handed 18 years in jail |
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| Sergey Tikhanovsky, a Belarusian political activist and the husband of Western-backed opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has been handed eighteen years behind bars by a court in Gomel. | Sergey Tikhanovsky, a Belarusian political activist and the husband of Western-backed opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has been handed eighteen years behind bars by a court in Gomel. |
| On Tuesday, a court in the south-eastern Belarusian city delivered the verdict during a session at the detention center where Tikhanovsky is being held. | |
| According to local media, investigators claimed that the activist and his accomplices had been involved in organizing mass unrest in Belarus in the wake of last summer's presidential election. Prosecutors accused him of inciting hatred and discord in society. | |
| “Tikhonovsky was sentenced to 18 years in a high-security penal colony," the Gomel Regional Court's press secretary, Alina Suleyko, told TASS. | |
| Three other opposition figures - Nikolay Statkevich, Igor Losik, and Vladimir Tsyganovich - were also found guilty in the same trial, Belta added. |