After the KGB interrogation: Members of the Belarusian opposition Kowalkowa fled

rehe Belarusian opposition politician Olga Kowalkowa fled to Poland. Kowalkowa, who was part of the campaign team of opposition leader Svetlana Tichanovskaya, who fled to Lithuania, told reporters in Warsaw on Saturday that she had been threatened by Belarusian security forces after her arrest last week and then taken to the Polish border.

Kowalkowa is a member of the Coordination Council founded by the opposition, which wants to achieve a change of power in Belarus after the controversial presidential elections. She was arrested on Tuesday of last week. On Saturday she gave a press conference in Warsaw together with Michal Dworczyk, chief of staff of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

Kowalkowa reported that she was taken from the prison to the Polish border in a car belonging to the Belarusian secret service KGB. She had to lie on the ground in the car and was released at the Kuznica Bialostocka border crossing. A Polish bus driver took them there.

Dworczyk said that Kowalkowa had arrived in Warsaw on Saturday night “under dramatic circumstances.” Kowalkowa said that everything that has happened to him in recent days and weeks is “torture.” They repeatedly threatened her with a “long prison”.

Dworczyk stressed that the Warsaw government would help all members of the opposition who feared for his health and life in Belarus. According to a decision by Prime Minister Morawiecki, “all victims of political repression in Belarus can count on the support and help of Poland.”