The “People’s Embassy” of Belarus in Germany began to issue and issue alternative passports reports Deutsche Welle .
Anyone can get a passport, regardless of their citizenship. The only requirement is to sign a statement that the person “does not support the dictatorship in any of its manifestations.” About a hundred people have already received an alternative document.
It is decorated in the colors of the white-red-white flag, the document has 16 pages, which contains the standard information about the owner. In addition to them, the passport holder can indicate information about their pets and visited countries of the world. The inscription in the document says that it is valid “for as long as the owner of the document does not support the dictatorship.” The organizers of the action warn that it has no legal force.
The passport is issued near a wooden trailer with a white-red-white flag in front of the building where the official diplomatic mission of Belarus is located. Since the issuance of documents fell on the period between Catholic Christmas and the New Year, one of the organizers, Taras Syakerka, decided to issue passports in a Santa Claus costume.
On December 11, former opposition presidential candidate in Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya took part in the virtual opening of “people’s embassies” in Brazil, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, Spain , Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Sweden and South Korea. “People’s Consulates” have appeared in Scotland and Catalonia.
The declaration on the creation of “people’s embassies” says that Belarusians abroad do not recognize the election on August 9 as legitimate Alexander Lukashenko . The official Foreign Ministry and the embassies “do not have democratic legitimacy” to represent the interests of Belarus and its diaspora, said in the document.
Mass protests against the official results of the presidential elections, according to which Lukashenka won 80 percent of the vote, have continued in Belarus since August 9.