Svyatlana Zichanouskaya

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Svyatlana Zichanouskaya (2021)
Cyrillic ( Belarusian )
Святлана Ціханоўская
Łacinka : Śviatłana Cichanoŭskaja
Transcr. : Svyatlana Zichanouskaya
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Светлана Тихановская
Transl .: Svetlana Tichanovskaya
Transcr .: Svetlana Tichanovskaya

Swjatlana Zichanouskaja (in the international press often Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya ; in the German press often Svetlana Tichanowskaja * 11. September 1982 as Swjatlana Piliptschuk in Mikaschewitschy ) is a Belarusian nonpartisan civil rights activist . She was a candidate in the 2020 presidential election in Belarus .

Life

Zichanouskaja graduated from secondary school in Mikashevichy and from 2000 studied pedagogy at the State Pedagogical University in Mazyr with a focus on German and English. She then worked as a translator for the Ireland- based organization “ Chernobyl Life Line” , among others . After all, she worked as a housewife.

Zichanouskaja is married to the political activist Sjarhej Zichanouski . She has a son and a daughter. More than a year after her husband was arrested as part of his presidential candidacy in Belarus, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison in December 2021.

Presidential candidate

Zichanouskaja at a campaign rally in Vitebsk

Zichanouskaja's husband, Zichanouski, had announced that he would run for the upcoming presidential election. On May 15, 2020, however, he was denied this by the Central Election Commission. As a result, his wife decided to run for the election, while Zichanouski took over the leadership of the campaign team. On May 29, Zichanouski was arrested by the Belarusian authorities on charges of preparing a serious breach of public order. Amnesty International considers the allegations to be an excuse and asks for his release.

Zichanouskaja is supported by Weranika Zepkala , wife and campaign staff member of the also not an option approved Waleryj Zepkala , and Maryja Kalesnikawa , the coordinator of the campaign team of the arrested presidential candidate Viktar Babaryka .

Zichanouskaya called for the release of political prisoners and a renewed holding of elections under free and fair conditions. When she received threats during the election campaign that she would be arrested and that her children would be taken to an orphanage, she had her children taken to an undisclosed EU country.

In the week before the election, but especially on the day before the election, Zichanouskaja's campaign manager was temporarily arrested. A total of seven of their employees were arrested before the election.

Political activity after the election

Two days after the election it became known that Zichanouskaja had left for neighboring Lithuania . The circumstances were unclear: while she said she had not been influenced in her decision, an election worker said the authorities had forced Zichanouskaya to do so.

She declared - later also during a visit to Berlin - she wanted to continue to take over the leadership in the country and organize the transition. She also called for peaceful protests against Lukashenka . At their suggestion, a coordination council for a peaceful transfer of power was formed. The Belarusian authorities wrote out Zichanouskaya for public calls for a seizure of power for an international manhunt .

In October 2020 she gave a press conference at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin and was received by Angela Merkel in the Federal Chancellery for an interview.

In December 2021 it was announced that she would be the winner of the Charlemagne Prize 2022.

See also

Awards

Web links

Commons : Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Yuras Karmanau (August 4, 2020). Ex-Teacher Hopes to Free Belarus From President's Iron Fist. The Associated Press , published by US News
  2. ↑ Belarus: Blogger Sergei Tichanowski sentenced to 18 years in prison . In: The mirror . December 14, 2021, ISSN  2195-1349 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 14, 2021]).
  3. ↑ a b Barbara Oertel: Presidential election in Belarus: candidate out of nowhere. In: taz . July 23, 2020, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Belarus: Full-scale attack on human rights ahead of presidential election. In: Amnesty International . June 29, 2020, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Tony Wesolowsky: Women Lead The Charge Against Belarus's Longtime Ruler , Radio Free Europe , July 23, 2020.
  6. ↑ Three women challenge incumbent Lukashenko. In: Zeit Online . July 23, 2020, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Weronika Zepkalo: "We will fight to the end" (Subtitle: Weronika Zepkalo was one of the three women who sparked the protest in Belarus. In an interview she tells how she wants to overthrow the Lukashenko system from exile.) Interview by Simone Brunner in Die Zeit on September 23, 2020
  8. ↑ The campaign manager arrested again by the opposition candidate. In: The mirror. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b Christina Hebel: Presidential election in Belarus: Alexander Lukashenko - again with all the hardship to victory. In: The mirror. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Lukashenko's opposing candidate speaks up after fleeing. In: t-online.de. August 11, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Tichanovskaya has left Belarus. In: tagesschau.de . August 11, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
  12. ^ Opposition candidate Svetlana Tichanovskaya forced to leave the country? In: dw.com. Deutsche Welle , August 11, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
  13. ^ The opposition leader Svetlana Tichanowskaja living in exile in Berlin. Spiegel online on December 14th, 2020
  14. ↑ Ex-Belarusian presidential candidate Tikhanovskaya's HQ starts forming coordination council to ensure transition of power ( en ) In: Interfax-Ukraine . Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  15. ↑ Gudrun Dometeit: The Hope Bearer, in: Focus No. 42, October 10, 2020, p. 42.
  16. ↑ Sakharov Prize awarded to Tichanowskaja. Deutsche Welle , accessed on December 16, 2020 .
  17. ↑ BBC 100 Women 2020: Who is on the list this year? In: BBC News . November 23, 2020 ( bbc.com [accessed June 8, 2021]).
  18. ↑ Bloomberg - Are you a robot? Retrieved June 8, 2021 .
  19. ^ Fritz Csoklich Prize: Award for women trio. In: The press . July 16, 2021, accessed July 17, 2021 .
  20. ↑ Svetlana Tichanowskaja receives the Lothar Kreyssig Peace Prize. Evangelical Church in Central Germany , August 11, 2021, accessed on August 22, 2021 .
  21. ↑ Svetlana Tichanowskaja receives the Charlemagne Prize 2022 , Tagesspiegel, December 17, 2021.
personal data
SURNAME Zichanouskaya, Svyatlana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пилипчук, Светлана Георгиевна (maiden name (Russian)); Ціханоўская, Святлана (married name (Belarusian)); Тихановская, Светлана (married name (Russian)); Tichanowskaja, Swetlana (married name (Russian transcribed))
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian civil rights activist and candidate for the presidency
BIRTH DATE September 11, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Mikashevichy , Belarusian SSR , Soviet Union