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Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya reacts to the movement winning the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for human rights. Belarus has been gripped by unprecedented protests since Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in an August election over Tikhanovskaya. SOUNDBITE
Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya vows the protest movement against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko will prevail despite a brutal crackdown by Minsk authorities, as she receives the EU's top rights prize. SOUNDBITE
The head of Norway's Nobel Committee, Breit Reiss-Andersen, announces that the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Belarusian human rights activist, Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organisation, Memorial, and Ukrainian human rights organisation, The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL). SOUNDBITE
Belarus's exiled opposition leader meets in Paris with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. Considered by the West as the real winner of the August 2020 election against the outgoing head of state Alexander Lukashenko, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya accuses the latter of "high treason" for having "helped" Putin's Russia to launch its invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the self-exiled Belarusian opposition figure leading a campaign against strongman Alexander Lukashenko, reacts in an interview with AFP to news of her husband being sentenced to 18 years in jail after galvanising an unprecedented protest movement. SOUNDBITE
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya meets with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian during a visit to Paris. IMAGES