“For now, I don’t think I’ve gone to emigration,” Alexeievich said at a news conference at the Taobuk book festival in Taormina, Italy.
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She stated that she went abroad to participate in several events, as well as to visit a doctor in Berlin.
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“At home, many believe me [atpakaļ Baltkrievijā] will no longer be allowed. This tends to happen to us, “said Alexeievich.
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“But I will still try to live at home,” the writer stressed.
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She recalled that the majority of the members of the Bureau of the Steering Board were either abroad or in custody.
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I was also summoned for questioning in the Committee of Inquiry and “also wanted to be detained,” Alexeievich said. However, at the time, she was somewhat protected by her Nobel Laureate status, the views of civil society, and foreign diplomats who came to her home when the authorities wanted to detain her, according to the writer.
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She expressed the view that “sooner or later” she would be tried again when she returned to Belarus.
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“It’s a completely insane situation when you realize that you can be arrested. (..) None of us could believe it until recently,” Alexeievich added.
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At the Taobuk Festival, Alexeyevich received the Literary Excellence Award.
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Alexeyevich was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015.
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Protests against the falsification of the results of the August 9 presidential elections continue in Belarus.
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According to official results, the current head of state Alexander Lukashenko won 80.1% of the vote, while opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovska only 10.1%.
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However, the opposition has stated that the results are falsified on the basis of evidence of unprecedented violations.
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The European Union and other Western countries have also refused to recognize the election results.
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