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Belarusian border guards continue the process against opposition Maria Kolesnikova, whom they tried to expel by force to Ukraine on 8 September.
A member of the presidium of the Belarusian opposition coordination council is still with the Belarusian border guards. The border guards themselves reported this to RIA Novosti.
The border service said they are continuing to investigate the “morning incident.”
On the morning of September 7, in Minsk, unknown persons arrested and took Kolesnikova away. In addition, the coordinating council press secretary Anton Rodnenkov and council executive secretary Ivan Kravtsov stopped contacting.
On September 8, Belarusian border guards said that Kravtsov, Rodnenkov and Kolesnikova passed the border check at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in the morning. Initially, the representative of the Belarusian State Border Committee, Anton Bychkovsky, said that the three had 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 State Border Service of Ukraine later reported that Rodnenkov and Kravtsov were in Ukraine and that 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 screamed 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.
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