Andrei Sannikau gets political asylum in UK
He is the second Belarusian ex-presidential candidate to have asked for political asylum abroad. Ales Mihalevich was the first one.
political asylum in Great Britain. Sannikau's family have decided not to comment on it, BelaPAN reports.
The ex-candidate's wife is in Minsk: her sentence forbids her to leave the state.
Sannikau's colleague Zmitser Bandarenka also asked for political asylum abroad (in Poland) in September.
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