Lithuania has rejected a formal request from neighboring Belarus, which demanded it enforce an arrest warrant against Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a prominent opposition figure and protest leader now living in the Baltic state.
Officials in Minsk lodged the paperwork on Friday. In a post on its Telegram channel, the Prosecutor General’s office said it had asked its Lithuanian counterparts “to extradite Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to face prosecution for crimes against the order of government, public safety and the state.”
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