Belarus opposition leader seized on Minsk street, local media says
MOSCOW —Maria Kolesnikova, one of three Belarus women who ran the opposition campaign against longtime authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko, was detained by a group of unknown men and shoved into a van Monday morning, according to independent Belarusian media citing a witness.
Kolesnikova is the only remaining top opposition figure still in Minsk, after the two other women left Belarus in the wake of a disputed election result that has triggered weeks of mass street protests.
Two others figures involved in the Coordination Council, a group of civic leaders set up by the opposition to negotiate a power transition, also disappeared Monday morning, according to the opposition.
“Their whereabouts are unknown,” the council said in a statement Monday, accusing the regime of using methods of terror. “Obviously such methods are illegal and cannot lead to any result other than the aggravation of the situation in the country, a deepening of the crisis and further growth of protests.”
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