Ban on leaving Belarus for opposition activists already imposed?

On March 7, the leader of the United Civil Party (UCP), Anatol Lyabedzka, was told on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border he was not permitted to visit the EU.

“I am at Kamenny Loh border checkpoint now,” Anatol Lyabedzka told ucpb.org. “I was forbidden to enter the EU territory. They do not explain why I am banned from leaving Belarus. They only said I could learn it from appropriate agencies in Minsk. They do not know the reasons, but their computer says I am denied to leave the country. I got a ‘denied’ stamp” in my card.”

It was earlier reported about a list of 108 opposition activists who will be banned from leaving Belarus for calling to toughen sanctions against the Lukashenka regime.