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Divorce who separated Alexander Lukashenko’s reign in Belarus speaking about threats made against them and their relatives at home.

Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians were estimated to have left their country since the opposite cracking protests in 2020, after the provision of presidential elections that were widespread.

Among those who were exiled was Tatsiana Ashurkevich’s journalist, 26, who continued to write about Belarus events. After this year, he knew that his flat door in the capital, Minsk, sealed with the foam.

He studied immediately who could be blamed. He decided to deal with one of his followers on Instagram repeatedly changed him to unsolicited compliments and seeing about listening to the Belarusian event and journalism.

“If there are criminal cases (against me), just say it,” he said. “I don’t care about that apartment – some people live there. Why do you do it?”

The man immediately changed his tone to an official officer, saying that criminal cases were not his responsibility, but he could ask the relevant department.

Then he asked: Can he replace assistance, share information about High-fighting for Ukraine, especially since he wrote it before?

Ashurkevich blocked him.

In Belarus himself, ten thousand people were arrested in the past five years for political reasons, according to the human rights group Viasna.

But hundreds of critics of the 31-year rule of Lukashenko also faced persecution overseas.

Lukashenko and Belusian State Media often accused opposition activists in the “betting of the country’s” berry “and plotting a help from the west.

Many people talk to the BBC receiving messages and phone calls, sometimes as innocent, sometimes with a thin threats – or promises with a catch.

Anna Krasulina, 55, receives he often used to put his phone in flight mode before bedtime.

“I can see who is in charge of me – a couple of people. Or maybe it’s the same as different accounts,” he said.

He was convinced by the authorities that were behind it. Ms Krasulina works as a press secretary for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a opposition leader who has believed mostly to 2020 elections, now living in exile.

Both women were sentenced to Belarus to 11 and 15 years each of the tests made to the left. Charges include preparing a coup and run by an extremist organization.

Since such trials against exiled political opponents have been made by a decree of Lukashenko in 2022, more than 200 cases were opened, according to Viasna, with the last year to see a record number.

It allows the authorities to attack the accused houses and harass their relatives.

Corresponding critics of pictures and videos made at opposition meetings abroad.

Many have now stopped participating in them, fearing for their loved ones who remained in Belarus, said Ms Krasulina.

Many people BBC talk to report their relatives visited by authorities.

“It’s awful if you can’t help them. You can’t get back. You can’t support them,” as one.

No one will continue to record or reveal any details unknown without concern that their families can be hurt.

Their fears are not difficult. Artem Lebedko, a 39-year-old work in real estate, served three and a half years jail sentencing for “extremism of financing”.

He had never spoken to the public, but his father was a politician of the opposition who lived in exile.

The violation of the relationships between the belts who fled and those who remained in the back were a deliberate strategy of Lukashenko’s government, said Hanna Libakakova, sentenced to 10 years in prison.

“Even if someone in Belarus understands everyone, they will think three times before talking to a ‘terrorist’,” as a list of “extremists” the authorities in their critics.

The BBC has sent a request for commentary on the Ministry of Belaries of internal activity, but not receiving a response time.

Some of Liubakova’s own relatives also received visits from security services, he said, and the property registered in his name were already taken.

Everyone who talks with the BBC who believes that Belarusian authorities seek to force the rest to crush all objections, anywhere.

Hanna Liubakova believes in the persecution of disksuents from Personal Revenge of Lukashenko for 2020 protests: “He wants us to feel unsafe even overseas, to know that we are watched.”

A nation proved unsafe for Belarusian exiles is Russia. According to the Minsk authorities, only 2022 Russia alone was 16 people accused of “extremist crimes”, a charge commonly with the critics of Lukashenko.

“The methods used by Belarusian security forces are similar to the Soviet KGB, just updated by modern technology, says Andrei Strizhak, bysol, a group that supports Belusian activists.

Threats to messages or promises of rewards for co-operation do not work at all, he added. But by throwing a wide net, the authorities may get some agree to share some useful information.

Strizhak called the regime’s efforts to hunt out overseas “attraction war” that left many activists who were consumed and wanted to continue their lives.

“We do everything we can do to stay strong,” says Skizhak, “but every year, need more and more effort.”