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Update, Sept. 10, 2020: Maria Kolsenikova has filed a court statement claiming that Belarusian KGB personnel threatened to kill her during their attempt to expel her from the country.On Sept. 7, Maria Kolesnikova, a member of the Belarus opposition’s coordination council, was abducted on the streets of the capital Minsk. Witnesses reported that Kolesnikova was pulled into a minibus by masked men in civilian clothes. Kolesnikova’s family filed a missing-person report. The next day, the state-run Belta news agency reported that Kolesnikova was detained on the Belarus-Ukraine border. Ukrainian sources, including Deputy Interior Minister Anton Herashchenko, reported that Kolesnikova had not crossed and claimed she destroyed her passport to prevent her Belarusian captors from forcibly deporting her to Ukraine.Two other members of the coordination council, Anton Rodnenkov and Ivan Kravtsov, say they were forcibly deported to Ukraine and are in Kyiv, the capital. They said they witnessed Kolesnikova tearing up her passport. Afterward, Rodnenkov said that Kolesnikova escaped the car she had been forced into by climbing out the window.Belarusian authorities, however, told a different story. According to the Belta news agency, the three opposition figures were spotted near the border in a BMW.The members of the so-called coordination council
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