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“The administrator of Sviatlana Cichanouskaya, Kanavalava Antanina, has disappeared. His whereabouts are unknown at this time,” said its headquarters.
The day before, Maryja Kalesnikava, member of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council, colleague of S. Cichanouskaya, Anton Radniankov, spokesperson, and Ivan Kravcov, executive secretary, disappeared.
The Belarusian state news agency BelTA reported Tuesday morning that Kalesnikava had been arrested for trying to illegally cross the border into Ukraine. Belarusian border guards confirmed that the woman had been detained and indicated that Radniankov and Kravtsov were in Ukraine.
Ukraine confirmed that Radniankov and Kravtsov had entered the country, but Kalesnikava did not appear at the Ukraine crossing. Ukrainian officials presented a different version of events, saying that Kalesnikava had resisted attempts to force her to leave Belarus.
“It just came to our attention then. It was a forced deportation from his native country,” wrote Deputy Interior Minister Anton Heraščenka on Facebook.
According to him, M. Kalesnikava “took steps” to prevent his deportation. According to a source, the Interfax news agency reported that he had broken his passport.
The electoral headquarters of Viktor Babaryka, a former candidate for the presidency of Belarus, later announced that M. Kalesnikava was being detained by border guards in the Gomel region.
At the time, Anton Byčkovskis, a spokesman for the State Border Guard Committee (GPC), said he could neither confirm nor deny the information.
Volha Kavalkova, a member of the Presidium of the Coordination Council, and Valer Capkala, a former candidate for the presidency of Belarus, also left Belarus. On August 15, he announced that he had been tried in Belarus; your search was published later. V. Capkala and his wife Veranika are currently in Warsaw.
Pavel Latatuška, a member of the Presidium of the Coordination Council who left Belarus, said his decision was due to pressure from the State Security Committee (KGB).
Protests against the results of the presidential elections on August 9 have been going on in Belarus for almost a month. Its winner was President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western countries consider these elections to be rigged.
Lukashenko’s main rival in the elections, Cichanouskaya, withdrew to Lithuania immediately after the elections.
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