Minsk authorities have put on auction a two-bedroom apartment in the Belarusian capital belonging to self-exiled opposition politician Valer Tsapkala, whose candidacy election officials refused to register for a presidential poll in 2020. In April last year, a Minsk court sentenced Tsapkala to 17 years in prison in absentia on charges of violating national security, financing terrorism, and slandering authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka. Tsapkala and his family fled the country in July 2020 and are now in Latvia. Last year, Minsk authorities sold a two-bedroom apartment belonging to the self-exiled leader of the Belarusian opposition Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Belarus Service, click here.
Another Self-Exiled Politician's Apartment Is Put Up For Sale By Belarus
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