In Poland, a trial over the country escaped a citizen of Belarus, member of the protests against President Alexander Lukashenko. Reported Reform.by under Article Wyborcza.pl.
Refugee name is Vitaly, he was an entrepreneur in Brest, after the presidential elections in 2020 took an active part in the protests. After receiving the information that you need to escape, he left the city. After the departure of his house surrounded businessman riot. “As for the terrorist came, scared his wife and threatened to take the child to search the house and confiscated a lot of things, including a car and a passport.” – says Vitaly
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He has been a series of charges, which faces up to 10 years in prison. He was hiding for about five months in Belarus, and then fled to Poland, crossed the river Bug. There he met a friend of the couple, and then they held the border patrol.
Vitaly asked for asylum, but he was accused of illegally crossing the border, as a married couple – in the organization of his move. Belarusian added that have been granted refugee status, his wife and children moved to Poland. The Court will begin January 14.
9 August 2020 Belarus presidential elections took place. CEC announced that a run for the sixth term of Lukashenko received 80 percent of the vote. This led to mass protests across the country, which lasted several months. A number of opposition politicians and activists have been arrested or have fled the country.