Alyaksei Pikulik: I am not allowed to leave Belarus now
The police took away the passport of the Academic Director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies.
This happened back on April 6, but Alyaksei Pikulik decided to speak up only today:
"Last Friday the police stopped me in a car and said: there was a fight here just recently and we suspect that someone escaped in a similar car. They took me to the city administration of internal affairs of the central district for identification. And then, a policeman started recording a protocol of interrogation, he said there was a suspicion that I had fake documents with me... After that, they examined my car and took away my passport and IPad".
According to Pikulik, they detained him again the same evening, and he spent five hours in the police department in Zhodzina.
Now Alyaksei Pikulik is going to appeal to all instances with enquiries and complaints. He will demand explanations why they took away his things and documents and made him travel banned.