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		</div><p>A court in Belarus on Monday sentenced exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 years in prison after a trial in absentia on charges including conspiring to overthrow the government.</p>
<p>Ms Tsikhanouskaya and four other opposition figures are being tried in their absence in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.</p>
<p>They also face charges of creating and leading an extremist group, inciting hatred and harming national security.</p>
<p>All five left Belarus following the unprecedented mass protests that erupted in 2020 after authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko secured his sixth term in office in a disputed election.</p>
<p>The opposition and the West have denounced the vote as rigged.</p>
<p>The demonstrations that followed were the largest and the most sustained since Lukashenko assumed office in 1994.</p>
<p>His government unleashed a brutal crackdown against the protesters, detaining more than 35,000 and beating thousands.</p>
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