The campaign manager of Belarus's leading opposition candidate was detained on Saturday on the eve of a tense presidential vote, her office said.
A spokeswoman for presidential hopeful Svetlana Tikhanovskaya told AFP that Maria Moroz had been detained and was expected to be held until Monday.It was not immediately clear on what grounds she had been held, said spokeswoman Anna Krasulina.Moroz was also detained by the interior ministry on Thursday after visiting the Lithuanian embassy in Minsk. She was later released.
Tikhanovskaya herself"is ok", said her spokeswoman, adding however she had left her flat and would spend the night ahead of the crucial vote elsewhere. Lukashenko has presided over an aggressive crackdown on the opposition and Tikhanovskaya has charged that he will rig the vote.
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