Lawyer Maxim Znak, a member of the Coordination Council established by the Belarusian opposition, was detained in Minsk on Wednesday, his colleagues said.
Znaku in his office was detained by people in civilian clothes in masks.
A video call was scheduled for him this morning, but he did not do so, instead sending one word to his colleagues – “masks”, the press service of former presidential candidate Viktor Babarico said.
Znaks was a lawyer for the prisoner Babariko for some time.
An eyewitness has seen several people in civilian clothes and masks take Znaku down the street.
After the arrest of Znak, only one member of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council remains in Belarus – Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Aleksiyevich, a 72-year-old Belarusian writer.
Other members of the Bureau have been detained or forced to leave Belarus.
It has already been reported that on Monday, in unclear conditions, people dressed as civilians on the streets of Minsk abducted Marija Kolesnikova, a member of the Presidium of the Coordination Council, and took her in a minibus.
Interfax agency, citing a source close to Kolesnikov, said on Tuesday that it had tried to remove Kolesnikov from Belarus by force, but she resisted and tore up her passport before crossing the border so that she would not be allowed into Ukraine but then detained.
Anton Rodnenkov, the press secretary of the Coordinating Council, and Ivan Kravtsov, the executive secretary, who stopped answering phone calls on Monday, crossed the Ukrainian border on Tuesday after pressure from the Belarusian authorities.
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