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“Sviatlana Aleksijevič asks journalists to visit her, because they call her with unknown numbers and call the apartment [duris]”, – wrote the representative.
S. Aleksijevič is a member of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council of the Opposition. On August 26, she was summoned for questioning in the Belarus Investigative Committee as a witness in the Coordination Council case and later refused to testify.
At present, practically all the members of the Presidium of the Coordination Council are detained or expelled from Belarus.
At the end of August, S. Aleksijevič was summoned to the commission of inquiry for a hearing.
He then told reporters that the Belarusian opposition Coordination Council considers solving the political crisis in the country to be its main task, rather than organizing a coup.
“Our goal was to help overcome the political crisis, not to strike a blow. It is not worth thinking that there are 60 people behind these protests. The people came by themselves. Each of us today is proud of our nation. We need to speak up. and argue, admit we’re different, however [turime] to find peaceful ways to overcome the crisis through dialogue, “he told reporters.
Alexeyevich then left the Belarusian commission of inquiry and refused to testify. “I exercised my right not to testify against myself, nor did I sign a promise not to disclose (information). I don’t think we are doing anything illegal,” he told reporters.
In mid-August, Alexeievich called on Lukashenko to resign peacefully and condemned the militant violence against protesters protesting against the rigged election of a head of state.
One of the last members of the Belarusian opposition Coordinating Council, lawyer Maxim Znak, who was still at large, was detained by masked men on Wednesday, his colleagues said.
Znak, who worked as a lawyer for Viktor Babaryka, a former candidate for the presidency of Belarus, had to attend a video conference but did not show up, simply sending the word “masks” to the group, Babaryka’s press service said.
The report also says that the witness saw 39-year-old men in plain clothes with masks marrying Znak on the street near his office.
Maryja Kalesnikava, Maksimas Znakas
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The 72-year-old Nobel Laureates in Literature, Sviatlana Aleksijevič and M. Znak, were the last two non-detained members of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council, a total of seven.
All the others were detained or forced to leave Belarus under increasingly strict measures against activists by President Aliaksandr Lukashenko’s regime.
Znak’s alleged arrest was reported the day after Maryya Kalesnikava, the most famous opposition figure still in Belarus, was arrested on the border with Ukraine in opposition to officials seeking to deport her by force. Mr. Kalesnikava’s passport was reportedly torn from him and he jumped out of the car.
The Coordination Council was created to ensure a peaceful transfer of power to the main opposition candidate, Sviatlan Cichanouskaya, without acknowledging Mr. Lukashenko’s declaration that he had been re-elected for the sixth term in the August 9 elections.
The disputed election sparked the largest anti-government demonstrations during Lukashenko’s 26-year rule. For a month, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand his resignation.
Lukashenko’s security services responded with waves of arrests, bloody violence against protesters and a campaign of intimidation and expulsion of opposition leaders.
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