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“The lawyer Lyudmila Kazak informed us that Mary had been transferred to a pre-trial detention center in Žodzyn,” he said.
It is not clear why M. Kalesnikava was transferred from Minsk for the first interrogation.
On Monday, it was impossible to contact M. Kalesnikava, a member of the presidium of the Coordination Council of the Belarusian opposition. On Tuesday, the state news agency BelTA reported that M. Kalesnikava had been detained while trying to illegally cross the border into Ukraine.
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Her comrades later reported that her officials wanted to be forcibly removed from the country, but she broke her passport at the border. She was later arrested and listed as a suspect in a case of calls for power.
President Aliaksandr Lukashenko said that “Kalesnikava was detained for violating state border crossing rules.”
Opposition lawyer Ms Kazak said her client considered the actions of the past few days as kidnappings.
On Thursday, the lawyer forwarded a statement to Ms Kalesnikava to the Belarus Investigative Committee with a request to prosecute officials of the power structures who detained her, who allegedly threatened to kill and imprison her for a long time.
In addition, the lawyer requested an examination of the bruise marks on Mr. Kalesnikava’s body.
For more than a month there have been unprecedented protests in Belarus over the presidential elections on August 9, which Lukashenko has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western countries consider these elections to be rigged.
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