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EU awards human rights prize to Belarus opposition

by Samuel Petrequin
| October 22, 2020 3:30 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Thursday awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, for their challenge to President Alexander Lukashenko’s long, hard-line reign.

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