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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.
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.
Babaryka headquarters is being registered
An employee of the headquarters secretariat informed the Interfax news agency of a raid on the headquarters of Viktor Babaryka, a former candidate for the presidency of Belarus.
“Investigations are being carried out at headquarters. The Interior Ministry (Interior Ministry) and people in civilian clothes are working,” the employee said.
It confirmed that Maxim Znak, a former member of the Opposition Coordination Council at headquarters, had previously left to accompany people in balaklavs and civilian clothes.
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