Meeting with Lukashenko in a pre-trial detention center: Which of the Maidan prisoners took the most radical position
The meeting of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko with oppositionists imprisoned in the KGB pre-trial detention center was positively received in Belarusian society.
The lawyer of oppositionists Viktor Babariko and Maria Kolesnikova, Alexander Pylchenko, stated this on the air of the liberal Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The meeting caused a positive reaction in society. Our people are quite peaceful. He adheres to the theory that peaceful protests will lead to greater results,” Pylchenko said.
He refused to divulge the details of the conversation, which lasted more than 4 hours, but urged not to build conspiracy theories. He doubts that after this conversation the protests, which are now coordinated only from Poland, will stop in Belarus.
“The protests are already happening on their own. Babariko was isolated from society long before the elections,” Pylchenko said.
He also doubts whether his clients will soon be free.
“Hope dies last, but that they will be free first or in the near future - no, I don’t believe in it,” Pylchenko said.
It is known that of all the political prisoners, Maria Kolesnikova took the most radical position: she refused to go to a meeting with Lukashenko.
“When two men who came to her asked how you see your future, she answered: I see it differently - either 5 years in prison until new elections, or a year and a half (the usual term for political prisoners). Or everything can change in one second - a “black swan”. That’s why Tikhanovsky was brought (In the video, the opposition blogger hides his face under a cap - ed.), but they decided not to touch her,” Pylchenko said.
Let us remind you that on September 8, Kolesnikova tore her passport when the authorities tried to expel her to Ukraine and after that she ended up in a pre-trial detention center.
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