Sieviaryniec Says Two Women Tried to Enter BCD Congress to Film Participants
Reform.news Editorial Team · 26 October 2026, 09:50
https://reform.news/en/sieviaryniec-says-two-women-tried-to-enter-bcd-congress-to-film-participants/Pavel Sieviaryniec reported two suspicious incidents during registration for the congress of Belarusian Christian Democracy (BCD), which took place on October 24 in Białystok. According to him, two women arrived at the event to film participants on behalf of another person. The politician linked the incident to Belarus’s KGB.
Sieviaryniec said that at the start of registration, he noticed an unfamiliar woman in her twenties in the hall and foyer. He approached her for a conversation and asked how she had learned about the congress. In his impression, the woman did not understand Belarusian.
When asked who had invited her, the woman showed him a contact on her phone and explained that she had been tasked with making “live videos of congress participants”. According to Sieviaryniec, she also said she had come from Ukraine.
The politician took the woman to the person responsible for event security. That person questioned her, photographed the organiser’s contact details and explained the situation, Sieviaryniec wrote.
Shortly afterwards, according to him, another woman tried to register as a guest at the congress. Sieviaryniec said the same scenario unfolded: the phrase “live video” was again mentioned at the registration desk. He provided no further details about the second visitor.
“In the BCD’s contest against the KGB, Belarusian Christian Democracy has taken a 2–0 lead,” Sieviaryniec wrote.
On October 24, a unification congress of Belarusian Christian Democracy was held in Białystok, where Pavel Sieviaryniec was elected party chairman. As Reform.news reported, the congress was timed to coincide with the centenary of the historical BCD. The organisers said its goals were to unite different strands of Belarusian Christian democracy, restore and develop the party’s activities, and strengthen cooperation among Belarus’s democratic forces.
For Sieviaryniec, the election came less than a year after his release from prison. He was detained in June 2020 and sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of organising mass riots. The politician was among 123 political prisoners released on December 13, 2025. Like most of those released, he was taken to Ukraine and later moved to Lithuania.