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Belarussian protest leader leads: "Threatened to expel me alive - or in pieces"

Maria Kolesnikova said security personnel put a sack on her head and threatened to kill her when they tried to forcibly deport her to Ukraine.

She managed to stay in the country after tearing her passport, and is now accused of making an illegal attempt to seize power from dictator Lukashenko.

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Thursday, September 10, 2020, 6:30 p.m.

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In the video: Report on the state television channel of Belarus about the arrest of Maria Kolesnikova (Edit: Nir Chen)

Belarussian opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova said security officers put a sack on her head and threatened to kill her when they tried to forcibly deport her to Ukraine earlier this week, her lawyer said today (Thursday).

Kolesnikova, one of the leaders of a month-long protest against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko, thwarted an attempt to deport her when she tore her passport.

She is under arrest for an illegal attempt to seize power in the former Soviet republic.

She stated in her statement that she had a real concern for her life during the failed deportation attempt.

"I was explicitly told that or if I did not voluntarily leave the Republic of Belarus, I would be expelled from it anyway, alive or in pieces. There were also threats to imprison me for 25 years," Kolesnikova said.

She said she was told she would have problems while being held under guard or in jail.

"The people (security officers) made explicit threats to my life and health, and I took them seriously," she said.

According to the Tut.By news site, her lawyer, Ludmila Kazak, has filed a criminal complaint against the authorities, including against the KGB services, for kidnapping, illegal arrest and death threats. The complaint was submitted to the government inquiry committee. Sergei Kabakovich: "I have no information about that at the moment."

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She felt a real threat to her life.

Kolesnikova (Photo: AP)

Kolesnikova's complaint included the names and ranks of officers in the KGB and an organized crime organization she allegedly threatened. The complaint said she could identify them. Her lawyer said she was currently being held in the Minsk capital, where she was being interrogated. that she had bruises in her body.

Lukashenko, who controls the country in 26 years, denies that he faked the election on 9 August. since then, the opposition's top leadership fled the country, imprisoned or deported. yesterday accusing Svetlana Alexeievich writer, Nobel Prize laureate in In 2015, diplomats from seven European countries came to her apartment, among other things, to defend her. The

president of Belarus, known as the last dictator in Europe, says his opponents will destroy the country and he refuses to relinquish his rule, although he said he was ready To hold early freedom after changes to the constitution, he will meet next week with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, and the Kremlin warns the West against intervening in Belarus, where they see a strategic buffer zone for NATO.

The EU is set to impose sanctions on a number of Minsk officials in the coming days, but its response to the crisis is cautious for fear of direct Russian intervention.

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