Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is the leader of democratic Belarus and a human rights activist, who challenged (and by many accounts, beat) the autocratic president Aliaksandr Lukashenka in the 2020 presidential election. She stood in for her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, in the presidential election after he was jailed for his political aspirations. The election was fraught with widespread fraud and was followed by unjustified violence. Tsikhanouskaya has become the symbolic leader of Belarusian protests. Following her forced relocation to Lithuania by Belarusian authorities, she met with global leaders to coordinate joint international efforts against the authoritarian regime to ensure the voices of Belarusians are heard.