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As protests against President Lukashenko continued in Belarus, another opposition activist left the country. Olga Kowalkowa, who is part of Tichanovskaya’s election campaign team, was reportedly urged to travel to Poland.
Belarusian opposition policy Olga Kowalkowa has gone to Poland. Speaking to reporters in Warsaw on Saturday, she told reporters that Belarusian security forces had threatened her after her arrest last week and then taken to the Polish border.
Kowalkowa is part of the electoral campaign team of opposition leader Svetlana Tichanowskaya, who fled to Lithuania, and of the coordination council founded by the opposition that wants to achieve a change of power in Belarus after the controversial presidential elections. Kowalkowa was arrested last Tuesday.
Departure is not voluntary
On Saturday he gave a press conference in Warsaw together with Michal Dworczyk, chief of staff of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. According to the online portal tut.by, Kowalkowa reported that the Belarusian authorities had pressured her to leave. They gave him the option of leaving the country or staying in prison for a long time. “Now I am free, but outside of Belarus,” he said, according to the Polish agency PAP. She wants to go back to Minsk.
Dworczyk said Kowalkowa 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 her 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.”
Again “Women’s March” in Minsk
In the Belarusian capital, Minsk, there was another demonstration against President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday. Thousands of women marched through the city on foot, waving white, red and white flags, as can be seen in the images on social networks. At least 5,000 women were reportedly away from home. Many carried flowers and made human chains. The police are said to have observed the demonstration; At first nothing was known of arrests during the so-called opposition women’s march. Also in other cities of the former Soviet republic, many women protested on Saturday.
