while his hands are cuffed. eagle eyed observers have noted that the colour scheme for his documents matches that of the belarus's red and white flag — a pre independence nationalist symbol that was been adopted as a symbol of belarusian democracy at last yea r�*s protests. it's of course worth mentioning that mr tikhanovsky was not alone in the dock today. alina isachenka's bbc russian has been looking at the verdicts against of his fellow defendants. in this so—called case, there were six participants in total. most of them have received a jail sentence between 14—16 years, sergei tikhanovsky's jail sentence is in fact the biggest. and as his wife said earlier this morning, she's written, she made a video statement on her telegram channel, a year, 20 years, 100, this is unlawful anyways, and it doesn't matter. what matters is what i can do today to help my husband, and i'm going to continue helping