Future Latvian MEP Olga Czerniawska fled to Belarus, where she applied for asylum. She claims she was threatened with repression in the country.
Belarusian state television broadcast an interview with a Latvian woman, Olga Chernyavskaya, who sought asylum in Belarus. She is a candidate for the European Parliament who has not been given a mandate. The woman is said to have fled the country for fear of political repression.
The Biełsat portal notes that the interview with Czerniawska is a “repeat” of the story of former Polish judge Tomasz Szmydt. In Belarusian and Russian propaganda she is presented as a political dissident. The Latvian spoke about the “threats to life and health” she reportedly faced in connection with her political activities. In the interview, she argued that Latvian citizens who do not support Ukraine are immediately considered secret employees of the Russian services.
Czerniawska accused Latvia of silencing its citizens. She claimed that four ‘unorthodox’ bloggers had been arrested in Latvia. She repeated the anti-Western narrative of Minsk and Moscow and concluded that Latvia was ‘occupied’ by the US. She emphasized that the United States was imposing its ideology on smaller Western countries and depriving them of their sovereignty.
At the end of the interview, she praised Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko for the country’s security and warned Belarusians about “Western values that bring only destruction.”
Olga Czerniawska is 41 years old and a housewife. Until she left, she lived in Riga. She took part in the European Parliament elections of the Young Latvian Association.
Former judge wanted by Poland
Former Polish judge Tomasz Szmydt asked Belarusian authorities for “care and protection.” On May 6, he argued at a press conference in Minsk that he had to leave Poland because he disagreed with the actions of the authorities in Warsaw towards the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.
Szmydt published on his profile on the website He wrote that it was an expression of “a protest against the unfair and harmful policies pursued by the authorities of the Republic of Poland towards the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.”
On May 8, the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Supreme Administrative Court revoked Szmydt’s immunity, allowed his detention and provisional arrest, and suspended him from office. On the same day, a Supreme Court spokesperson announced that Szmydt was no longer a judge. His resignation statement as a judge was accepted by the President of the Supreme Administrative Court.
Szmydt is currently wanted on an arrest warrant.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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