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Lawyer Maxim Znak, one of the last members of the opposition board in Belarus, was arrested by masked men on Wednesday (9), opposition sources said.
The press service published on Telegram a photo of Znak led by masked men in civilian clothes.
The 39-year-old lawyer is one of seven members of the leadership of the coordinating council, a body formed to push for the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko and organize the transition of power.
The group’s leader and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Svetlana Alexievich is in exile in Lithuania. The rest of the team members were arrested or also exiled.
Znak’s arrest comes just a month after the presidential elections, which sparked an unprecedented wave of demonstrations against the reelection of President Lukashenko, accused of fraud.
The opposition claims that the opposition Svetlana Tijanóvskaya won the elections.
The police and the secret services (KGB) have not confirmed the arrest of Znak, but the script corresponds to what happened with other opponents, who were detained by unidentified men and two days later appeared as exiles or prisoners.
The Belarusian government said on Tuesday (8) that it had detained Maria Kolésnikova, one of the leaders of the protests against Lukashenko, when she was fleeing the country for Ukraine.
