-Kolesnikova is in detention. I cannot specify the detention centre, but he has been arrested for the conditions under which he can be taken out of Belarus." The spokesman for the Belarussian border police confirmed the arrest of the member of the Opposition Coordination Council. In addition to Kolesnikova, Anton Rodnenkov and Ivan Kravtsov, members of the Opposition Coordination Council, have also disappeared since 8 September. The spokesman for the border police said that these two were the ones who managed to cross the border. However, there are still great uncertainties: "It is not clear who has crossed the border; furthermore, has it really happened or has it been invented to feed the propaganda of Belarus?" Journalist Gulliver Cragg asks a question. Ignorance and concern are the protagonists at the moment, as no one knows Kolesnikova.Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa and Veronika Tsepkal, who have been together with Kolesnikova in the front line of the struggle, achieved exile in the previous weeks. Tikhanovskaïa will take the floor on 8 September by videoconference from Lithuania.

Protests since 9 August

Since 9 August, the Belarussians have been calling for the resignation of their president, Aliaksandr Lukaxenka, for the violence of the Machista. Thousands of citizens have returned to the streets this weekend in the streets of Bilbao. Kolesnikova is working on the creation of a new party and, to do so, contacted Viktor Babarico, a imprisoned opponent, before being arrested.

Meeting 80% of the votes in the presidential elections, the opposition denounced fraud and since then the opponents are still mobilized. Killings, torture and arrests are under great repression. The European Union (EU) has condemned the arrest of Kolesnikova, as well as the persecution of demonstrators who have participated in it. Lukaxenka has been president since 1994.