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The opponent, who challenged President Lukashenko to the polls, disappeared Monday morning. Another dissident, Antonina Konovalova, also disappeared
The opposition party, who challenged President Lukashenko to the polls, disappeared on Monday morning: the collaborators had spoken of kidnapping, and a witness had said that he saw, near the National Museum of Art, two hooded men carry by force in a the Kolesnikova minibus.
Contacts have been lost with another Belarusian dissident, according to the staff of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the main opposition candidate in the presidential elections on August 9, and specified that “at the moment it is not known where she is.” Reports from the Interfax agency.
While the fate of the woman and her companions is still uncertain, the EU has called on the Minsk authorities “for the immediate release of all those detained for political reasons, arrested both before and after the false presidential elections on August 9” . And the high representative of the EU for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, has made it clear that Brussels will impose sanctions “on those responsible” for the repression in the country.
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