She says there was no doubt that she won last August's presidential election. 
Protesters were killed and Tikhanouskaya was forced to flee to Lithuania after being threatened.
The people of Belarus need your help, she says. Demand that Lukashenko releases prisoners and steps down and that free and fair elections are held.
Alexei Navalny's daughter Dasha is receiving the 2021 Moral Courage Award. He advised her from prison, "Don't screw up your first public appearance."
She says their apartment was raided by police for the first time when she was 10 and her brother was three.
"The best plan that my 10-year-old brain could come up with was to shove my laptop under my T-shirt and into my pants."
"In his letter my dad asked me to dedicate this award to every single political prisoner in Russia and Belarus."
"For all these years he's been showing the people in power, who are shamelessly abusing their power, that this is not going to work."
"I want to end this speech with something else my dad said. Russia deserves to be free and happy, and it will be, and I also firmly believe that."
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