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Belarusian opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova, who disappeared on September 7, was accused of inciting actions that undermine national security. This is the first official news of the activist since Kolesnikova, according to her own account, was kidnapped in the center of Minsk and taken by force to the border with Ukraine.
Kolesnikova’s disappearance came a day after 100,000 people in Minsk protested for the fourth consecutive weekend against the outcome of the August 9 elections and demanded the resignation of President Lukashenko. Kolesnikova said they would tell her that if she does not leave Belarus she will be taken out of the country “alive or in pieces” or that she will be imprisoned for 25 years.
Kolesnikova, however, to avoid being forcibly expatriated, managed to get out of the car that was taking her to Ukraine and snatch her passport. After her refusal to leave Belarus, she was arrested and imprisoned again, first at the Mozyr Border Military Detachment and then at the Minsk Prison.
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