Two leading members of a newly formed opposition council in Belarus were questioned on Friday in a criminal case that accuses the body of trying to seize power from President Alexander Lukashenko after a disputed election.
Prosecutors launched a criminal case on Thursday alleging that the Coordinating Committee was set up as an illegal attempt to seize power. The committee, made up of dozens of high profile public figures including a Nobel Prize-winning author and the ousted head of the country's main drama theatre, says its aims are peaceful and its tactics lawful.
It is also a challenge for the West. The country's borders with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are major NATO frontiers, and eastern European states have spoken in support of the opposition.
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