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The reasons why the opposition activist was detained have not been officially announced. The woman’s father speculates that Ms Kalesnikava is being prosecuted for criminal proceedings in Belarus following the establishment of the Coordination Council. The case was initiated on the basis of an article on “incitement to actions to undermine the national security of the Republic of Belarus”. According to the Belarusian prosecutor’s office, the Coordination Council seeks to gain control of the country. Council members have repeatedly said that the government does not claim that its objective is to recalculate the results of the presidential elections, on the basis of which Alexander Lukashenko won the elections again. Mr. Kalesnikava was detained on the border with Ukraine in opposition to officials seeking to deport her by force. The opposition reportedly tore up his passport and jumped out of the car.
Strangers tried to break into the apartment of the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature Sviatlan Alexeievich. To protect the writer from possible arrest, she was visited by diplomats from Lithuania and other European Union countries.
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.
He called on the Russian intelligentsia to intensify their condemnation of the brutality of the Belarusian power structures. “I still want to address the Russian intelligentsia, let’s call it that, according to an old custom. Why are you silent? We only hear rare voices of support. Why are you silent when you see a small and proud nation trampling? We are still your brothers. And I want to tell my nation that I love it. I am proud of it, “wrote S. Aleksijevič.
Alexeievich also assured that he did not intend to leave Belarus.
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