Belarus opposition leader says Lukashenko’s government ‘frightened’

Belarus opposition leader says Lukashenko’s government ‘frightened’
Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (AP)

Exiled Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has said the arrest of a dissident journalist after a Ryanair plane was diverted to Minsk was a panicked miscalculation by the country’s authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko.

She said in an interview: “It was really a mistake. The regime never crossed this red line before, of interfering in a European area.

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