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On the night of September 5, a member of the presidium of the Belarusian opposition coordination council, Olga Kovalkova, left Belarus. The portal TUT.BY writes that Kovalkova is now in Warsaw.
A member of the presidium of the coordinating council Olga Kovalkova left for Poland, council spokesman Anton Rodnenkov told the Belarusian website TUT.BY.
“We confirm that Olga is now in Warsaw,” Rodnenkov said.
Later, Kovalkova’s departure was commented on by the Belarusian State Border Committee.
“On September 5, at approximately 2.00 am, he reached the Bruzgi checkpoint on foot, passed through border control, after which he waited for the closest regular bus between Grodno and Warsaw and headed to Poland,” they said. the Belarusian border guards.
Later, at a press conference in Poland, Kovalkova recounted the details of her departure from Belarus. According to TUT.BY, at night she was taken from the temporary detention center on Akrestin Lane in Minsk, where she served 15 days in detention, and was taken to the Bruzgi border checkpoint.
“I did not plan and did not intend to leave Belarus and will be returning there soon,” Kovalkova said.
According to her, representatives of the authorities came to the isolation room and said that if she did not leave, she would not be released for long.
Kovalkova explained that they had gone to the isolation room for her. Then they put her in a car, put a hood on her, gave her a mask, put her in the back seat and took her out.
“I didn’t know where we were going, we got to the Bruzgi crossing. I crossed the border, they carried my things, they wanted to take me. But the bus was going to Warsaw, and the Polish border guards asked a Polish driver to take me. The driver recognized me. , he follows the news, and said that he was glad that I was free. He did not have a phone with me, he only had a business card from the Polish ambassador Artur Michalsky. I called him and he facilitated my visit to Warsaw, “he said.
Kovalkova was arrested by riot police on 24 August at the entrance to the Minsk Tractor Plant (MTZ), where she arrived with a representative of the MTZ strike committee, Sergei Dylevsky, to discuss the situation at the company with the workers. According to the Telegram channel NEXTA Live, they were arrested for allegedly organizing an unauthorized mass demonstration.
On September 2, Kovalkova was to be questioned by investigators from the Belarus Investigation Committee in the case of the creation of a coordinating council. On September 3, Kovalkova received another 15 days in prison.
Belarusian opponent Svetlana Tikhanovskaya announced the creation of a coordinating council for the transfer of power in Belarus on August 14. On August 18, the Tikhanovskaya headquarters announced that the coordinating council was ready for negotiations with the country’s current president, Alexander Lukashenko.
The presidium of the coordinating council consisted of seven people: writer, Nobel laureate Svetlana Aleksievich, lawyers Lilia Vlasova and Maxim Znak, employee of the Minsk tractor plant Sergei Dylevsky, confidant of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya Olga Kovalkova, associate by Tikhanovskaya Maria Kolesnicikova Yanka Kupala Pavel Latushko Theater.
The current head of state said he did not agree with a new election and accused the coordinating council of the opposition of trying to take power.
Since August 9, there have been massive protests in Belarus. The protesters believe that the results of the presidential elections, which were held from August 4-9, were falsified. According to official data, Lukashenka won with 80.1% of the voters. Tikhanovskaya came in second with 10.1% of the vote. The rest of the candidates earned less than 2%. At the same time, alternative exit polls showed the opposite picture: Tikhanovskaya’s confident victory.
The Belarusian security forces violently dispersed the demonstrations, in particular with the use of stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons. During the protests, more than 7,000 protesters were arrested (many of them have already been released), hundreds were injured and wounded. According to official figures, four protesters died.
173 people were arrested in protests in Belarus on August 30. According to human rights activists, the detainees included minors and a Russian citizen. According to the latest data from the country’s Interior Ministry, the security forces detained 41 people in the protests on September 4. About 30 people, including journalists, were arrested at the student rally on September 5.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on behalf of the European Union, stated on August 11 that the elections in Belarus “were neither free nor fair” and that the authorities used “violence disproportionate and unacceptable “against the protesters.
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