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Belarusian Nobel Laureate Refuses to Answer Questions in Opposition Probe

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   Nobel Prize-winning author and Belarusian opposition activist Svetlana
   Alexievich refused to answer questions Wednesday after Belarusian
   investigators summoned her for questioning over allegations of criminal
   activities committed by a newly formed opposition group with which she
   is associated.
   Alexievich is a member of the opposition Coordination Council, the
   target of a criminal case accusing it of illegally trying to seize
   control of the government from President Alexander Lukashenko.
   Alexievich told reporters in Minsk that she exercised her right as a
   witness not to testify against herself.
   "They try to scare us, but we are not guilty of anything," she said.
   "We want to live in a free country, we want to [be] free."

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