Tyga Urged By Human Rights Foundation To Cancel Concert In Belarus

Tyga is at the center of some real-life geopolitical intrigue — after being mostly famous for his role in reality TV on “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”

The US-based Human Rights Foundation is urging the rapper to cancel a scheduled performance at a government-sponsored concert in Belarus. Why? The “Hip Hop Fireworks” show is due to take place the night before the country’s presidential election that could potentially end the 26-year rule of its authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, the org said.

The foundation’s president, Thor Halvorssen, said in the open letter to Tyga, “This performance, scheduled for the day before Belarus’ elections, is no coincidence. It is an excuse to cancel the opposition’s final electoral rally, and prevent ordinary Belarusians from showing their support for freedom and democracy.” And, “It is also a deliberate attempt to turn attention away from the massive electoral fraud that is already taking place across the country.”

Halvorssen claimed that Tyga’s show will “provide the Belarusian dictator a useful propaganda stunt.” He said, “The two most popular candidates in the upcoming presidential election, Viktor Babryka and Sergei Tikhanouvsky, were both arrested on trumped up charges.”

Tyga is perhaps most famous for dating Kylie Jenner. (He’s also reportedly been dogged by money problems, having had a $19,000 lien for unpaid taxes in California, and three cars, including a Maybach, allegedly repossessed.)

According to his site, Tyga played recent shows in Portugal and Serbia, but the Belarus date is not listed.

Meantime, Belarus leader Lukashenko — who has been called “Europe’s last dictator” — has claimed to his security forces of the upcoming election, according to the New York Times, “A hybrid war is going on against Belarus, and we should expect dirty tricks from any side. We don’t even know who they are: Americans with NATO, or someone from Ukraine, or our eastern brothers showing their affection toward us this way.”

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