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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 to the first interrogation in solitary confinement.
On Monday, it was impossible to contact M. Kalesnikava, member of the presidium of the Coordinating Council of the Belarusian Opposition. On Tuesday, the state news agency BelTA reported that Ms. Kalesnikava had been detained while trying to illegally cross the border into Ukraine.
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 Alexander Lukashenko stated that “M. Kalesnikava was arrested for violating the rules of crossing the state border. “
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 were declared won by Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western countries consider these elections to be rigged.
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