At the entrance to Belarus, the ex-candidate was detained by the President Mikhalevich

The former presidential candidate of Belarus Ales Mikhalevich was detained upon returning to his homeland from Vilnius. This was reported by Radieo Svaboda.

“I am in Goodogay, officially detained while returning to Belarus,” Mikhalevich said on the phone. “I hoped that sooner or later I need to return, and I think that now is the best moment to return. I really want to be with my family, I really want to be in Belarus, and therefore made such a decision.

In Belarus, “anything can be possible,” Mikhalevich noted. Therefore, he expects the worst option: "I will sit for a long time and persistently."

The decision to return to his homeland Mikhalevich made after the release last year under the amnesty of human rights activist Ales Belyatsky and the pardon of the ex-candidate to the president of Nikolai Statkevich. Before leaving Vilnius, Mikhalevich said: “I return to Belarus. I said many times that I will return right away how the main political prisoners will be released (I thought about Belyak and Statkevich). They cross the border of Belarus, I know that I will be arrested, since I will remain the last accused about the“ riots ”of 2010, which is investigative, which is the investigative of the investigative year. The committee refuses to close. "

On December 19, 2010, on the day of the announcement of the results of the presidential election, Mikhalevich was detained at a rally in the center of Minsk, among hundreds of opposition activists and ordinary citizens. Then he, like other ex-candidates of Vladimir Neklyaev, Vitaliy Rymashevsky, Andrei Sannikov, Dmitry Usa and Statkevich, was arrested on charges of organizing riots.

In mid -February 2011, Mikhalevich wasreleased from the KGB pre -trial detention center on a recognizance not to leave , managed to leave Belarus and received political asylum in the Czech Republic.

Later, the KGB of Belarus was called slander Mikhalevich’s story about torture , which he was subjected to a pre -trial detention center. The KGB Center for Public Relations has published on the official website a photo of the part of the "penitent letter" of Mikhalevich to President Alexander Lukashenko. In it, Mikhalevich wrote about “respect for Lukashenko for merits for the independence of Belarus” and expresses regrets about the “conflict that has happened”. "I was forced to do this in connection with the terrible conditions of detention in the KGB, which can be qualified as torture," Mikhalevich said earlier.

On August 22, Lukashenko decided to pardon and release from the conclusion of Statkevich as well as other political prisoners: Nikolai Dedka, Igor Onevich, Evgeny Vaskovich, Artem Prokopenko, Yuri Rubtsova. Meanwhile, at least three political zones remain in conclusion - these are the defendants in the “ Graffitists' affairs ” Maxim Pekarsky, Vadim Zheromsky and Vyacheslav Kasinerov.