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Belarusian opposition spokeswoman Kalesnika said security personnel looted her bag and threatened to kill her when she tried to take her to Ukraine, according to a statement released by her lawyer on Thursday, Reuters reports.
Kalesnikava resisted officials trying to leave the country and broke her passport. She is currently detained in the capital, Minsk.
The report says his life was in danger.
“It was especially clear that if he did not leave Belarus voluntarily, he would be deported in any case, alive or in pieces. They have also threatened me with prison terms of up to 25 years, “said M. Kalesnikava.
His lawyer said that the opposition had filed a statement against the Belarusian authorities, including the KGB.
“It just came to our attention then. I supported the threats. It has been said that if I do not voluntarily leave the territory of the Republic of Belarus, they will still take me, alive or in parts. I also received threats of spending up to 25 years behind bars.
I put a bag on my head, put it in a minibus and took it to the border between Belarus and Ukraine (Aleksandrovka border checkpoint), where a force, against my will, tried to deport me from the Republic of Belarus.
When I tore up my passport so that I could no longer enter the territory of Ukraine, they put me back into a minibus and took me to the Mozyr border unit, where I remained until the night of 8 August 2020, “writes M. Kalesnikava to the Investigation Committee on kidnappings and threats.
Ms. Kalesnikava is considered a suspect in a criminal case over public calls to overthrow the country’s government, her lawyer Liudmila Kazak told the tut.by portal on Wednesday.
“Maryja Kalesnikava has the status of a suspect in a criminal case,” the portal said.
The lawyer managed to meet with her client in the remand center, where she is now detained.
“Mary is fine, no procedural steps have been taken yet,” emphasized Kazak.
On Monday it was impossible to contact M. Kalesnikava, member of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council, Anton Radniankov, spokesman, and Ivan Kravcov, executive secretary.
On Tuesday, the state news agency BelTA reported that Ms. Kalesnikava had been detained while trying to illegally cross the border into Ukraine.
Belarusian border guards confirmed the arrest of M. Kalesnikava and also reported that A. Radniankov and I. Kravcov had managed to cross the border into Ukraine.
The authorities wanted to remove M. Kalesnikava from Belarus by force, Kravtsov said.
“In the first place, they were interested in the possibility of taking Mary Kalesnikava abroad. They explained this by the need to de-escalate, in their opinion, the situation in the country. One of the proposed options was that we cross the border in three of our personal cars, ”Kravtsov told a news conference in Kiev on Tuesday.
Kravtsov and Radniankov claim that they met in Ukraine against their will, as the Belarusian border guard previously said.
On Wednesday, the country’s Commission of Inquiry confirmed that members of the Belarusian opposition, M. Kalesnikava and Maxim Znak, were arrested in a case of calls to seize power.
“It was decided to arrest the suspects Mary Kalesnikava and Maxim Znak,” the authority said.
According to her, Ilya Salejus, M. Kalesnikava’s lawyer, was also arrested in this case.
“Investigations are currently being carried out to establish all the circumstances of the criminal case,” the Committee said.
Belarus has been protesting for a month before the results of the presidential elections on August 9. Its winner was President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western countries consider these elections to be rigged.
More than 7,000 people have already been arrested during the demonstrations. persons.
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