Condition of Woman Who Got Cancer After Arrest at Peaceful Rally Worsened
Tacciana Harachanikava is being prepared for the first surgical operation as her husband Juras Navicki wrote on his Facebook page.
The history of Tacciana Harachanikava — who is also known as Tasia Tapolia — became known after the brutal dispersal of the protest rally against undemocratic presidential elections on December 19, 2010.
Tacciana had a scheduled operation to remove benign tumor. However, the woman got beaten and arrested at the rally. Due to the detention, she missed the operation and her tumor turned malignant and metastasis developed in her body before she managed to reschedule the operation.
“It wasn’t the first time she was beaten,” her husband recalls. “During Freedom Day in 2006 she was beaten by some brute [riot police officer] who simply hit her in her face cutting her lip. Her only guilt is in protecting the glass doors of the building of the parliament from provocateurs and also in shooting photo and video which refutes the lies of state TV channels which carefully put axes, fuels canisters and Molotovs on site of peaceful rally after it had been brutally driven away.”