Regarding Belarusian track and field athletes who left Japan after participating in the Tokyo Olympics in hopes of asylum in a third country, the Polish vice minister of foreign affairs in exile said that the athletes arrived in Poland early on the morning of the 5th of Japan time. Clarified.
Poland's Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Psidachi posted on Twitter on the night of the 4th local time and early the morning of the 5th Japan time, revealing that Belarus national team Kristina Chimanouskaya (24) has arrived in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. I made it.
Chimanouskaya came to Japan to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, but when he wrote his dissatisfaction within the team on SNS, he returned to Belarus saying that he was about to be deported as "criticism of the administration". Refused and requested asylum in a third country.
Belarus' neighbor Poland issued a visa for humanitarian reasons and accepted asylum, so Chimanouskaya was heading from Narita Airport to Poland via Vienna, Austria.
"Poland will continue to show solidarity and support," Foreign Minister Psidachi wrote in a post.
In Belarus, President Lukashenko, who has been leading the country for 27 years, has been cracking down on those who are critical of the administration, and it will be interesting to see how Chimanouskaya will explain the details of how he went into exile.