Nikolai Khalezin in hiding after the KGB issue arrest warrant for the co-founder of the Belarus Free Theatre. Mike Harris reports
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Entire staff of Charter97 held by KGB / Index learns of prison abuse
Update:
• Entire Charter97 staff arrested
• Scores of activists beaten, held by KGB
• Phones of opposition activists out of service
• Four opposition presidential candidates currently held by police
• Criminal charges being drawn up
• Free Theatre’s Natalia Koliada released, fined
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This banner has appeared in Cambridge Circus, at the heart of London’s West End.
Index on Censorship has learned that Natalia Koliada, a founder member of the Belarus Free Theatre, has been detained by authorities in Minsk. Koliada has been unable to contact other members of the dissident theatre group. Tens of thousands of people have gathered in the Belarusian capital’s Independence Square to protest the result of the presidential election, which incumbent Alexander Lukashenko claims to have won with 79 per cent of the vote.