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Poland, land of asylum for Belarusian opponents

2020-10-20T18:12:50.921Z


REPORT - Over a hundred of them have fled their country since the August 9 election to join the large diaspora already established in Warsaw.


Warsaw

Alena Zuikova prepares tea in the kitchen of an apartment she is renting temporarily in the center of Warsaw.

This employee of an international company working online came to live in Warsaw at the end of August with her two children aged 2.5 and 7.

Her husband, Andrei Yahorau, analyst for the Center for European Transformation, a think-tank on Central and Eastern Europe, is also one of the 70 members of the Coordination Council chaired by Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa, one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, refugee in Lithuania since the disputed re-election of Alexander Lukashenko.

Read the file:

Protests in Belarus: what future for the Lukashenko regime?

Alena Zuikova preferred to leave the country preventively when the Lukashenkist regime was already in thousands of arbitrary detentions.

“It was hard to leave Belarus, I didn't want to, but when my husband found himself in prison from September 6 to 16, I understood that it was good that we were here.

If Andrei had ever had to suffer

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Source: lefigaro

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