Imagine you live in a foreign country and your passport expires. You have only two choices: either returning home to get a new one and risk being arrested on arrival, or staying where you are without proper documents.
What do you do?
That’s the situation facing Belarusians who live abroad, including many dissidents who self-exiled to avoid lengthy prison sentences. Last month president Alexander Lukashenka banned diplomatic missions overseas from exchanging, renewing or issuing new Belarusian passports.
