Mikalai Dziazdok

Mikalai Dziazdok is a blogger who writes and produces videos on socio-political topics, a journalist, and an activist of the anarchist movement. He was detained late in the evening on November 11, 2020. During the arrest, he was beaten, choked, and had pepper spray was sprayed into his eyes for several hours in order to obtain passwords to his devices and force him to record a confession video. On September 11, 2025, it became known that he had been taken from Belarus to Lithuania.

Freedom, for me, is first and foremost the ability to speak out loud what you truly think. Home is the place where my friends are. Life now is daily work. I think about those who remain in prison with pain.