Sarah Rainsford Eastern and Southern Europe correspondent EPA Sergei Tikhanovsky was so ematiated after his release that even his daughter didn’t recognise him Sergei Tikhanovsky has barely spoken for more than five years. All that time he was held in solitary confinement in a high security Belarusian prison for daring to stand up to a...
The husband of Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has been unexpectedly released from prison in Belarus, along with other political prisoners. Sergei Tikhanovsky has been moved to Lithuania and has been being reunited with his wife who lives in exile in the capital Vilnius. It is understood at least 10 prisoners have been released in...