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“Maryja Kalesnikava has the status of a suspect in a criminal case,” said the portal tut.by.
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.
In the criminal case initiated by the Belarusian security forces after the establishment of the Coordination Council, only Mr. Kalesnikava has the status of a suspect; the condition of other council members are witnesses.
According to the lawyer, M. Kalesnikava is currently in a six-seat cell and “is recovering from the events at the border.” It is not yet clear how long Kalesnikava will remain here.
Earlier, the woman’s father, Aliaksandr Kalesnikav, reported that a Belarusian opponent who had been forcibly removed from the country on Tuesday was arrested and held in a remand center in Minsk.
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.
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.
The Coordination Council was created to ensure a peaceful transfer of power without recognizing the re-election of Lukashenko as the main opposition candidate, Sviatlan Cichanouskaya.
The Presidium of the Coordinating Council included Nobel Laureate Sviatlana Aleksijevič, founder of the international brokerage firm Lilija Vlasava, chairman of the strike committee of Minsk Tractor Company (MTZ) Siarhei Dylevsky, lawyer M. Znakas, candidate of the electorate of S. Cichanouskaya Volha Kavalkova the staff coordinator M. Kalesnikava and the former director of the Janka Kupala National Academic Theater, Pavel Latuška.
Lukashenko’s government has accused the Coordination Council of unconstitutional actions and has prosecuted him for up to five years in prison.
To date, all the members of the Council, with the exception of S. Aleksijevič, have been detained or have gone abroad.
On Wednesday, unknown persons tried to break into S. Aleksijevič’s apartment.
“Sviatlana Aleksijevič asks journalists to visit her, because they call her with unknown numbers and call the apartment [duris]”- wrote the representative.
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.
Diplomats from Lithuania and other European Union countries visited Nobel laureate S. Aleksijevič in Minsk on Wednesday to protect her from possible arrest, Lithuanian Ambassador to Minsk Andrius Pulokas confirmed to BNS.
He told BNS that he had arrived himself, along with diplomats from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, Austria, Romania and other countries.
“It just came to our notice then. We have received signals that strangers, probably representatives of the militia or security, are calling his apartment. In this way, we found out, we decided that the arrest could be threatened, because Sviatlana Aleksijevič is the last member of the Coordinating Council who has not been detained or has not left Belarus, “A. Pulokas told BNS.
According to him, S. Aleksijevič is feeling well and is determined to stay in the country.
“There are all kinds of options, but so far it seems that Sviatlana tends to stay where she is, in her apartment and be a symbol and hero of the people, the Belarusian people, a person who will continue to unite and show her inner path,” said the diplomat. . .
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