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- Apparently there is no trace of Maria Kolesnikova, the leader of the protest in Belarus. Her campaign team announced this.
- An online portal reports a kidnapping. The police contradicts this representation.
- The Interior Ministry in the capital Minsk reports that more than 630 protesters were arrested in the demonstrations on Sunday yesterday.
Arrested? Opposition leader Maria Kolesnikowa in Minsk.
Keystone
Her colleagues have no contact with her, said the press service of the coordination council of the democracy movement in Minsk. Furthermore, her colleague Ivan Kravzov and her spokesman Anton Rodnenkow are no longer available.
According to a witness, the online portal tut.by reported that strangers put Kolesnikova in a minibus and kidnapped him on Monday morning. This has not yet been confirmed by the Coordinating Council.
A symbolic figure
Maria Kolesnikova is a member of the opposition “Coordination Council”, against which the Belarusian authorities have taken legal action.
In the resistance against the Belarusian dictatorship under President Lukashenko, she is now seen as a symbolic figure, although the 38-year-old has recently become a political activist. She had led the electoral campaign of banker Viktor Babariko, until he was arrested.
More than 600 arrests
According to the authorities, more than 600 people were arrested during the massive protests over the weekend in Belarus. About 360 protesters remain in custody, the Interior Ministry in Minsk said on the Telegram news channel.
Tens of thousands demonstrated against the government of President Alexander Lukashenko. Maria Kolesnikova was also in the crowd.
Mass protests have continued since the beginning of August, since the presidential elections. The people are demanding the resignation of Lukashenko, who has held power in Belarus since 1994.
