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  • Important news. Lukashenka ordered the Belarusian embassies to stop issuing passports. Another threat to colleagues

    Belarusian authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka has ordered the country’s embassies to stop issuing passports to Belarusians living abroad. 

    Until now Belaru­sian expats could get new pass­ports at the coun­try’s diplo­mat­ic mis­sions, but accord­ing to a decree pub­lished on Sep­tem­ber 4, they can only get a new pass­port or renew an old one in Belarus.

    This means that Belaru­sians, and Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists in par­tic­u­lar, can no longer update their main doc­u­ment at their coun­try’s embassy. This means that polit­i­cal­ly active cit­i­zens of Belarus and inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists who left to escape the Lukashen­ka regime will have their main doc­u­ment, a pass­port, expire from now on.

    BAJ empha­sizes that this is a seri­ous prob­lem, since most EU coun­tries issue res­i­dence per­mits to for­eign­ers with a valid­i­ty peri­od until the expi­ra­tion date of the pass­port.

    BAJ con­sid­ers it impor­tant to announce now the cre­ation of mech­a­nisms to pro­tect cit­i­zens of Belarus in this sit­u­a­tion in such coun­tries as Ger­many, the Czech Repub­lic and oth­ers.

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