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Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the self-exiled Belarusian opposition figure leading a campaign against strongman Alexander Lukashenko, reacts in an interview with AFP to news of her husband being sentenced to 18 years in jail after galvanising an unprecedented protest movement. SOUNDBITE
Speaking at a press conference in Poland, Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya dismisses an interview shown on state television in Belarus with a journalist who was arrested after his plane was forced to land in Minsk. SOUNDBITE
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya says during a press conference in Warsaw that the public "shouldn't believe the words" of jailed activist Roman Protasevich's state interview. Journalist Protasevich was arrested after his plane was forced to land in Minsk. Tikhanovskaya says such interviews and videos with political prisoners are filmed under duress and are the result of the activists "being tortured and violated". SOUNDBITE
Police detain protesters near Moscow's Boslhaya Sukharevskaya Square as more than 500 people are detained during demonstrations across Russia calling for the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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