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September 10, 2020 - Belarusian dissident Maria Kolesnikova denounces that KGB agents who attempted to take her to Ukraine against her will had put a sack on her head and threatened to kill her.
"They said that if I refused to voluntarily leave Belarus, I would still be taken out of the country: alive or in pieces," said Kolesnikova, a member of the presidium of the Belarusian Opposition Coordination Council.
The dissident says she tore her passport so as not to be taken abroad.
"They threatened to kill me. I took these threats seriously," Kolesnikova explained in a statement to the Belarusian Investigation Committee taken up by the Interfax news agency.
"Specifically - says the dissident - they said that if I refused to voluntarily leave the territory of the Belarusian Republic I would be taken out of the country anyway: alive or in pieces. They also threatened to have me sentenced to 25 years in prison, to create problems in my detention center and in prison. I also took these threats seriously. "
The opponent, who on Monday was kidnapped in broad daylight by men in black civilian clothes who forced her into a minibus, says that after she refused to leave the country she was locked in a cell and kept there for an hour.
"When I was illegally detained in the KGB detention center - underlines Kolesnikova - I used every opportunity to tell the officials passing by my cell that I had been kidnapped and to ask them to inform my lawyer and my father of my whereabouts" .
The dissident then says that the KGB agents put a sack on her head and pushed her into a van to reach the border with Ukraine, but she tore her passport to prevent the Belarusian secret services from taking her abroad. against his will.
At that point, the officers forced her back into the van and took her back to Mozyr's border guards, where she was held until the evening of 9 September.
According to controversial and disputed Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, Kolesnikova was arrested for trying to leave the country illegally.
He is now in prison on charges of inciting the usurpation of power.
The dissident filed a complaint asking for investigations into the State Security Committee (KGB) and the unit against organized crime and corruption (Gubopik).
The site tut.by reported it, according to which the complaint was presented by the lawyer Lyudmila Kazak to the president of the Investigation Commission.