Opposition candidate Tikhanouskaya denies being forced out of Belarus


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  • Tuesday, 11 Aug 2020

FILE PHOTO: Belarusian united opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanouskaya attends a news conference following the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus August 10, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

MINSK (Reuters) - Opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya on Tuesday denied being forced to leave Belarus, contradicting comments from her campaign team, and said the decision to leave had been very difficult.

"I made a very difficult decision. It's a decision I made absolutely independently," she said in a video posted on YouTube.

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