According to an opposition spokesman, Znak was supposed to give an interview in the morning, but did not show up. After calling the phone, he just said, “Looks like someone came to us,” hung up, and wrote the word “mask.” Witnesses later said that the Character was taken away by masked people.
It was later revealed that Znak’s apartment was being searched, as well as the staff of the imprisoned opposition politician Viktar Babarika, from where Znak was accompanied by masked men. Opposition lawyer Dzmitryj Lajeuski Tut.by said the matter was being considered by a committee of inquiry. He was informed that these were procedural acts in criminal proceedings against the Coordinating Council “due to calls for actions detrimental to the national security” of Belarus.
Maksim Emblem and Nobel Prize winner for literature Světlana Alexijevičová are the last two members of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council who have remained at large and are in Belarus.
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Alexievich: We wanted a dialogue
According to Znak, due to her age of 72, Alexievich is not actively involved in the activities of the presidency. However, a statement appeared on the website of the Belarusian PEN Club, in which the writer reiterates that the leadership of the council did not prepare for a coup.
“We wanted to avoid a split in our country. We wanted a dialogue to begin in society. (Alexander) Lukashenko says he will not talk to the street, but the streets are hundreds of thousands of people who go out every Sunday and every day. This is not a street. That’s the people, “said the Nobel Prize winner, whose door, in the morning, according to Tut., Would also be ringed by strangers, but in vain.
The writer also called for support for Russian intelligence. “Why are you silent when you see a little proud nation trampling? We are still your brothers, “she wrote.
Alexeyevich is protected by diplomats, including the Czech ambassador
Ambassadors from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Austria, Slovakia and Sweden came to Alexijevičová. It happened after unknown men tried to break into her apartment. They intend to monitor the situation in the writer’s apartment, “because it is more difficult to resort to brutal methods when diplomats are around,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told Reuters. “They are visiting Citizen Alexeyevich at her invitation. He has an apartment and has guests with him, “he added.
Diplomats arrived at the writer after her statement that she was the last of the council’s leadership at large and that strangers were pounding on her door. “When we arrived, there were already journalists, a lot of people and a few minibuses,” said Deputy Lithuanian Ambassador Asta Andrijauskéne. “We have invited more ambassadors. Police tried to enter the entrance, but did not let them go. There is no one right at the door of the apartment on the seventh floor, “she added, according to Russian media.
The presence of the Czech Ambassador Tomáš Pernický in Alexijevičová’s apartment was confirmed on Twitter by the head of Czech diplomacy, Tomáš Petříček.
