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The representative of the united opposition of Belarus, Maria Kolesnikova, was transferred to the Zhodino pretrial detention center, said Gleb Germanchuk, a member of the headquarters of the opposition Viktor Babariko.
Belarusian opposition member Maria Kolesnikova was released from Minsk remand prison. Gleb Germanchuk, representative of the headquarters of opposition leader Viktor Babariko, told the Russian news agency Interfax about this, citing information from lawyer Lyudmila Kazak.
Kolesnikova was transferred to the Zhodino City Pretrial Detention Center. The reasons for the transfer are unknown.
On the morning of September 7, in Minsk, unknown persons detained and took Kolesnikova in an unknown direction. Furthermore, the press secretary of the opposition coordination council Anton Rodnenkov, as well as the council’s executive secretary, Ivan Kravtsov, stopped communicating.
On September 8, the Belarusian border guards announced that Kravtsov, Rodnenkov and Kolesnikova had passed the border control at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in the morning. Initially, the representative of the Belarusian State Border Committee, Anton Bychkovsky, said that the three crossed the border. He then said that Kolesnikov was “kicked” out of the car at the border, while Rodnenkov and Kravtsov managed to escape to Ukraine. The woman was arrested.
The State Border Service of Ukraine later reported that Rodnenkov and Kravtsov were in Ukraine, and Kolesnikova did not arrive at the Ukrainian checkpoint. Ukraine’s Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko said the three were forcibly expelled to discredit the Belarusian opposition. Kolesnikova, according to him, could not be expelled, as “this brave woman took steps to prevent her movement across the border.”
Later, Kravtsov and Rodnenkov said that they were detained in Minsk and taken through the Belarusian border checkpoint. When they were already in neutral territory, Kolesnikova was forced to sit with them; she yelled that she was not going anywhere, after which she tore up her passport, got out of the car window, and headed back to the Belarusian border.
On September 9 it became known that Kolesnikova was arrested, at that time she was in jail number 1 in Minsk. She is suspected of trying to seize power.
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