Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya – about threats to take away children:
“First they started to kidnap people on the streets. Then they began to break into the apartments. Now they are invading families directly and threatening to announce that the children of the protesters are in a socially dangerous situation. The soloist of the choir “Uniya” Aliaksandr Shyk was arrested for 15 days for his position, his wife got an administrative penalty. And now they are also threatened that their adopted minor son will be taken away. Just to prove its strength, the regime is ready to make the child an orphan.
This is petty and vile revenge on a family that does not want to put up with what is happening in the country. There is no legal basis for this, but the regime is no longer trying to create at least the appearance of compliance with the law. That is why we are creating a system for recording evidence of crimes against the people of Belarus. This is a single base of evidence that everyone can add and which will directly lead to sanctions and trials of the regime's accomplices. This is one of the steps of the People's Tribunal and this is the main way to stop the lawlessness, which is beneficial only to criminals.
I know how horrible it is when your children are threatened. And I know that we will do everything so that no other adult in Belarus is afraid that his child will be taken away from him, and not a single child is afraid that he will be separated from his mother and father”.
