“If you go out and start protesting, you will be thrown into prison,” Barenok said. “Maybe it’ll come out someday. Maybe not.”
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tskanouskaya protested the election from the Polish capital Warsaw on Sunday. “Today we marched for freedom in Warsaw. United and unwavering. We honored the heroes who gave their lives for freedom.”
“Together, we are unstoppable,” she said. “As Belarusians, we will never lose hope. We will take back our country and return home stronger than ever.”
But Tskanouskaya’s economic advisor Alekhanovitchyu said that the mood in Belarus itself was doe.
“People feel that the costs of protesting will increase and the benefits of protesting will decrease. They don’t think now their votes or their actions can change anything,” Aranovich told Politico on Sunday. told. “Lukashenko and his army, they can kill people, they can arrest people, they can shut down the businesses of disloyal people and all other people.”
Once he voted, Lukashenko told reporters that some of his political opponents had been “selected” to go to prison or go into exile. No one was prevented from speaking out in Belarus, but prisons were “for those who opened their mouths wide, for those who broke the law, to put it openly,” he said according to Reuters reported as.
