{"id":43651,"date":"2022-09-07T19:16:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T16:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/jailed-protest-leader-says-opponents-trying-to-steal-country\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"jailed-protest-leader-says-opponents-trying-to-steal-country","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43651\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed protest leader says opponents trying to steal country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>September 7, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Opponents are trying to steal the country from Belarusians, protest leader Maryja Kale\u015bnikava has said in an address marking the second anniversary since she was abducted by law enforcers.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cA lot has changed in two years,\u201d she wrote, as quoted by former presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka\u2019s Telegram channel. \u201cA catastrophe is happening. They abduct us from each other, steal our history and future and attempt to steal our country from us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> She added that freedom, love and self-esteem cannot be stolen or killed even in the darkest times.<\/p>\n<p> Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja addressed Kale\u015bnikava on Telegram by saying: \u201cThey are trying to hide you from people and hide people from you, so that you begin to regret making this choice. But I know that you have no regrets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Kale\u015bnikava was taken into custody on September 8, 2020. One day earlier, security forces abducted her in the center of Minsk and tried to force her out of the country, but she tore her passport at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. <\/p>\n<p> On September 6, 2021 the Minsk Regional Court\u2019s Judge Siarhiej Jepicha\u016d found her guilty of conspiring to seize power, creating an extremist formation and calling to undermine national security, and sentenced her to 11 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p> The Committee for the State Security (KGB) included Kale\u015bnikava in the list of persons it links to terrorist activities. According to Babaryka\u2019s headquarters, she had lodged an appeal, but on July 5, 2022 it was rejected by a court.<\/p>\n<p>Kale\u015bnikava has been held in Homiel\u2019s Correctional Colony No 4 since January 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 7, BPN. Opponents are trying to steal the country from Belarusians, protest leader Maryja Kale\u015bnikava has said in an address marking the second anniversary since she was abducted by law enforcers. \u201cA lot has changed in two years,\u201d she wrote, as quoted by former presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka\u2019s Telegram channel. \u201cA catastrophe is happening. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43651","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jailed protest leader says opponents trying to steal country | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 7, BPN. 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