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Belarusian exiles: No passports and no chance of return

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Belarusian exile Maxim Isayev shows his soon to be expired passport. © AFP

Around 100,000 people are thought to have fled Belarus amid a violent crackdown on dissidents by strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko, with many heading to neighbouring Poland. Now, Lukashenko is attempting to shut them out for good by making it impossible to renew their passports without returning home, where rights groups say they could face arbitrary arrest and torture.

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