Belarusian blogger and critic Syarhey Tsikhanouski was the first person arrested in Alyaksandr Lukashenka's heavy-handed crackdown leading up to his internationally contested presidential win in August 2020, and he's spent much of the time since in solitary confinement.
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It started as an act of graffiti at a playground in Minsk. It turned into a remarkable campaign of defiance against an increasingly totalitarian regime.