How are dissenters in foreign exile are seeking and threatened

Alexander Lukashenko’s authorities have spoken threats in Belarus in Belarus in their home and their relatives.

Hundreds of thousands of Belarus left the harsh cracks against the hard opposition protest in 2020, 70. Year, the victory proclaimed were convicted as presidents in the elections.

Among Exils was a journalist Tatsiana Ashurkevich, 26 years old, who continued to write about Belarusian events. He then found that this year before, the door of the capital of the capital, Minsk, sealed him with a construction foam.

He immediately invented that he could be fault. He decided to face an Instagram to a follower, who had not repeatedly requested, about some views and perspectives on the opposition movement of Belarusia and exile.

“There are cases of punishment (against me), just say,” he said. “I have nothing to do with that apartment – they live in that other person. Why do you do this?”

The man immediately changed the tone more officially, that criminal cases were not responsible for his responsibility, but he could ask the relevant department.

He then placed the request: in exchange for support, he shared information in Belarusian Ukraine, especially since he wrote about them?

Blocked Ashurkevich.

Belarus in itself, tens of people have been arrested for political reasons for the last five years, according to the Human Rights Group Viasna.

But hundreds of critics in Lukashenko 31 year of Lukashen has also faced harassment abroad.

The State media in Lukashenko and Belarus often accuse the “betrayed” the country’s activist opposition and states with the help of western support. Authorities have justified foreign entrepreneurs, arguing that they are trying to harm national security and disposal of the government.

BBC has talked several people to receive messages and phone calls, sometimes innocent, sometimes promises with threats or catches with thin threats.

Anna crassulina, 55 years old, receives the phone so many times before bed before bedtime.

“I see who handles me – it’s a couple of people. Or maybe it’s the same using different accounts,” he explains.

Powers are convinced behind that. Crasulina works as Secretary of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, many won the 2020 election leaders who lived in exile now.

The two women have been in Belarus for 11 to 15 years in the Reservence. Preparing the states of the state entered and running the extreme organization.

The trial against exiled political opponents were made through a Decree in 2022 in 2022, more than 200 cases, according to Viasna, last year see the registration number.

This allows authorities to attack the accused houses and make the relatives bully.

Critics are identified in photos and videos in opposition meetings abroad.

Many have now been involved in them, afraid of beloved in Belarus, says Mrs. Krasulina.

BBC spoke to let them know how many people visited their relatives by the authorities.

“It’s frightening that he can’t help. You can’t go back. You can’t accept it,” he says.

No one will make a recording or will also reveal the details to hurt their families.

Their fears are not a base. Artem Lebedo, who worked in real estate, is working on the 39-year-old, three and a half prison sentence for “extreme financing”.

He never spoke to public, but his father was an opposition of politician who lived in exile.

Fled has broken the links between the Belarusians who have escaped and the Government of Lukashen is a strategy, Journalists and Hanna Liubakova analysts established 10 years in the absence.

“Although someone in Belarus understands everything, they will think three times before talking to a” terrorist “,” authorities populates the list of “extreme and terrorists” that populate the rulers with their critics.

He sent a BBC comment to the ministry of the interior subjects of Bern, but did not receive the publication time.

Liaubakova’s relatives have also received a visit from security services, and has been kidnapped by the goods registered on his behalf.

The BBC spoke when the solo authorities believe that when all oppositions want to be a maximum pressure on those who have left, anywhere.

Hanna Liubakova believes that the stems from Lukashenko personal revenge for 2020 protests. “He wants not to feel safe abroad to find out if we are watching.”

A country that is not particularly safe for Belarusian exiles is Russia. According to Mensk authorities, only Russia was streaked in 2022 by accused of “extreme crimes”, a load related to Lukashenko critics.

“Belarusian security forces are very similar to Soviet KGB. They have just updated with modern technology, says Andrei Strizha Bype Bype Bype, a group that supports Belarusian activists.

The threatening prizes for cooperation may or the award promise cannot be in the work of everyone. But by throwing a wide network, the authorities can agree to share useful information.

Strizhak calls efforts to hunt abroad abroad abroad, who want to run out of many assets and move forward with their lives.

“We are doing everything we can to be mildly,” says Strizhak, “but more and more effort every year.”