Cichanoŭskaja slams closure of Polish border crossing for individual travelers
February 14, BPN. Belarusian opposition leader Śviatłana Cichanoŭskaja has told a Zoom press conference that her cabinet does not support restrictions on ordinary citizens’ movement across the border.
Asked about the closure of the Bierastavica-Bobrowniki border crossing, Cichanoŭskaja stressed that she only supported the ban on lorries. “Ordinary citizens should be able to leave and enter Belarus freely,” she said.
Last week, Warsaw closed the major crossing until further notice, citing security interests.
This came after a Belarusian court sentenced a reporter of Polish origin, Andrzej Poczobut (Andrej Pačobut), to eight years’ imprisonment. The Polish Sejm called the sentence “the culmination of the Belarusian authorities’ repression against the Polish minority in Belarus that has been ongoing since early 2021.”
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