Edit: By “overthrow” I mean an actual attempt to topple the government, not wandering around aimlessly in a building for 4 hours stealing furniture.
If you actually oppose power you would almost certainly be FBI’d long before you could ever get to a position where you could conceivably stage a coup.
Being barred from election is a very quaint punishment for leading a failed coup.
Oh for sure, though my point is that this is the guardian trying to present this to an English speaking audience who will never actually read the original laws in their original language. If this is true it absolutely shouldn’t get any support, but the guardian lies so much about Belarus already that I doubt the authenticity of the whole thing. It seems like a lot of western articles about their enemies, just declaring them a dictator and saying they made a bunch of “evil dictator laws” with no rhyme or reason behind it other than vague gestures at “authoritarianism.”