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“I have been forced to leave Belarus temporarily due to the sentencing of Viktor Dzmitryevich Babaryka and the transfer of the case of Masha Kalesnikava and Maxim Znak to the court where I was detained in September 2020 and still accused today, as well as other events,” I said in my Instagram account. Announced by I. Salejus.
The lawyer also shared a photo of himself on one of the streets in Warsaw.
I.Salejus admitted that this decision turned out to be the most difficult for him “in the last year (and there were many)”.
“But today, that solution seems to me the only possible one and, to one degree or another, it satisfies everyone,” the lawyer wrote.
“Today I defend my status as an independent lawyer, which I value, and I do not hide: I am close to home and in contact,” Saljus said in his statement.
Salius was reportedly arrested on September 9 last year in a criminal case initiated by the Belarusian Attorney General’s Office for “calls to action to undermine national security.” He was placed under house arrest in October.
Messrs. Kalesnikava and Znak, members of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council, whose trial began behind closed doors last week, were also arrested in the case and the search for former presidential candidate Sviatlan Cichanouskaya was announced. He withdrew to Lithuania after the elections.
Aliaksandr Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist since 1994, has cracked down on any display of disobedience following a wave of mass protests sparked by his disputed re-election in August last year. The Belarusian opposition and western countries consider the election rigged.
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