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Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya joins a march held in Copenhagen in solidarity with the political movement. Belarus has been gripped by protests since Lukashenko claimed victory over Tikhanovskaya in the election. IMAGES
On the eve of Turkey's election, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu concludes his campaign with a symbolic visit to the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern and secular Turkey. Opinion surveys show Kilicdaroglu with a slight advantage over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and within a whisker of breaking the 50-percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff on May 28. 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 calls on French President Emmanuel Macron to take "decisive action" to resolve the Belarusian crisis, as she speaks at a press conference at the House of Journalists in Paris. SOUNDBITE
Speaking at a press conference in Poland, Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya dismisses an interview shown on state television in Belarus with a journalist who was arrested after his plane was forced to land in Minsk. SOUNDBITE
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya says during a press conference in Warsaw that the public "shouldn't believe the words" of jailed activist Roman Protasevich's state interview. Journalist Protasevich was arrested after his plane was forced to land in Minsk. Tikhanovskaya says such interviews and videos with political prisoners are filmed under duress and are the result of the activists "being tortured and violated". SOUNDBITE