According to information, Svetlana Alexievitch is in Germany.
According to her staff, the trip is not linked to the political situation in Belurs, where protests against incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko and alleged electoral fraud have been going on since early August.
According to Reuters, the employee says that Svetlana Alexievitch, who herself described the street demonstrators as heroes, plans to return to Belarus.
The purpose of the trip to Germany must have been work and to gain access to better healthcare.
Protected by diplomats
After the imprisonment of many pro-democracy activists, Svetlana Alexievitch has been the only remaining member of the Bureau of the so-called Coordinating Council in Belarus, a group that seeks to bring about a peaceful change of power.
Alexeyevich has been protected from security forces by foreign diplomats, who have been guarding the author at her home in Minsk.