Moscow (CNN) The main opposition candidate in Sunday's disputed presidential election in Belarus has left the country after security forces mounted a sweeping crackdown on protests over the result. Tikhanovskaya fled after publicly rejecting preliminary election results that handed the longtime Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a landslide victory. On Monday, Tikhanovskaya "left to an unknown location" after filing a complaint with Belarus' central elections committee demanding a recount of the votes. Her campaign told CNN on Sunday that nine people associated with the campaign had been arrested. "They have used water cannons, stun grenades, rubber bullets, tear gas," Alex Kokcharov, a political risk analyst at IHS Markit, who specializes in Belarus, told CNN.

Source: CNN August 11, 2020 09:07 UTC