It was on Sunday that the 24-year-old athlete refused to board the plane to Belarus. She now tells Reuters that she decided to depart already on the way to the airport after a short conversation with her grandmother.
– I literally only had ten seconds (to talk to her).
Her grandmother only had time to warn her that it was not safe for her to return before she had to hang up.
Kristina Timanovskaya then sought refuge with Japanese police at Haneda Airport, to which she was taken against her will. On social media, she wrote that she had been kidnapped by her own leaders, whom she had previously criticized.
“I am not afraid”
Kristina Timanovskaya does not believe that her leader was prepared to turn to the police.
– They believe that we are afraid to do something, that we are afraid to speak, afraid to tell the truth to the whole world. But I’m not afraid. “I’m not one of those people who’s scared,” she told Reuters.
On Wednesday, Timanovskaya flew to Poland, where she received a humanitarian visa.
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