Harsher Charges Revealed Against Jailed Belarusian Opposition Figures Kalesnikava, Znak

Harsher Charges Revealed Against Jailed Belarusian Opposition Figures Kalesnikava, Znak
February 12, 2021 10:02 GMT
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MINSK -- Opposition sources say that the Belarusian authorities have added charges including conspiracy to seize state power and organizing extremism to the cases of jailed opposition figures Maryya Kalesnikava and Maksim Znak.
Both are among the detained ranking members of the Coordination Council, an opposition group set up after Belarus's disputed presidential election in August with the stated aim of facilitating a peaceful transfer of power.
News of the fresh prosecutions came after the first day of a Soviet-style "All-Belarusian People's Assembly" mounted by Alyaksandr Lukashenka to float possible reforms and development in a move that appears designed to buy him time amid unprecedented protests against his regime.

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