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He had also been accused of spying on Chinese dissidents and opposition figures in Germany.

He said the same network had also carried out reconnaissance for a planned attack on a Russian dissident and businesses he owned in London.

Herminie has promised, however, there will be no return to the Seychelles' dark past that included the murder, exile and disappearances of political dissidents.

The opposition leader added that she is "very worried about the fate of Mikola Statkevich" - a veteran dissident who refused to leave Belarus yesterday and cross into Lithuania.

Mikola Statkevich, a veteran dissident, refused to cross into Lithuania and Belarus's exiled opposition posted pictures of him sitting in no man's land at the border.