Latvian Political Prisoner Stands Up For Belarusian-speaking Prisoner

For this he was hit with a baton.

A Latvian citizen spent three and a half years in a Belarusian prison for his statements in a closed chat room in one of the messengers.

Dmitri Mikhailov testified to "Radio Svaboda" that people are persecuted in Belarusian prisons for writing and talking in the Belarusian language. A Latvian was even hit with a truncheon for an attempt to stand up for a Belarusian-speaking person.

Dmitry Mikhailov owned a store in Minsk. He was detained on March 1, 2022 and subsequently sentenced to four years for comments on the Internet, including insulting Lukashenko.

The man spent three years in prison. He was released on June 21, 2025, along with 13 other political prisoners as a result of a visit by Keith Kellogg, special envoy of the administration of US President Donald Trump.

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