Belarus: Sergei Tsikhanovsky included in terrorist list

Tsikhanovsky was detained on 29 May, 2020, in Grodno, during a picket in support of the presidential candidacy of his wife, Svyatlana Tsikhanovskaya. Sergei himself was supposed to register as a candidate for president but could not file the relevant documents, seeing as he was, at the time, held in the pre-trial detention facility.

Tsikhanovsky was accused of organising mass riots, inciting social hatred, obstructing the work of Belarus’ Central Election Commission, and organising actions that gravely violate public order.

In December 2021, a Belarusian court sentenced him to 18 years in a strict-regime penal colony.