What is going on in Belarus? Illegitimate election was held and the incumbent President, Alexander Lukashenko, is refusing to step down.

N1 spoke to Belarus opposition activist Veronika Tsepkalo as part of its Global Focus programme on Thursday.Tsepkalo, who had recently, as part of Belarus democratic opposition, won the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, talked to N1 about the situation in the country.