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After five years in jail, opposition figure Tikhanovsky speaks out

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Sarah Rainsford

Eastern and Southern Europe correspondent

EPA Belarusian opposition figure Sergei Tikhanovsky speaks during a rally of Belarusian opposition in front of the Copernicus Monument in Warsaw. He is speaking very animatedly and has his fists clenched. Behind him is a crowd of people.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…

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