Challenging Lukashenko - Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s fight for Belarus | DW Documentary

From homemaker to presidential candidate, in Belarus. In this documentary, Turkish journalist Can Dündar meets Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a woman who unexpectedly finds herself fighting for her country’s freedom, from exile. In President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, Can Dündar has been regarded as ‘Public Enemy No. 1’ ever since he exposed illegal arms shipments by the Turkish government to Syria back in 2015. Erdoğan has personally described the journalist as a terrorist and called for him to be locked up for life. As his trial got underway, Can Dündar survived an assassination attempt and fled to Germany. Since then, he’s been working to defend his homeland against Ankara’s lies and speak out in favor of truth and freedom. Dündar meets a woman with a mission not of her choosing. In 2020, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s husband Sergej advanced from blogger to presidential candidate against his country’s authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko. But like all opponent