Mikola Dziadok (born 1988) is a Belarusian anarchist movement activist, blogger, and journalist (including work for the independent socio-political newspaper Novy Chas).<\/p>\n
He was detained on September 3, 2010 and later convicted in a case connected with the Molotov-cocktail attack on the Russian Embassy in Minsk. During the investigation, the wording of the charges was changed and came to include organizing an unauthorized protest and symbolic \u201cdirect actions\u201d against state buildings, including damage to property. He did not admit guilt. In November 2011, international human-rights organizations recognized Mikola as a political prisoner. <\/p>\n
During his five-year imprisonment, he was transferred between several correctional facilities. He was released on August 22, 2015 by a presidential decree of pardon. <\/p>\n
On November 12, 2020, Dziadok was detained again amid the post-2020 crackdown; he reported being tortured. In November 2021, a court sentenced him to another five years in prison. <\/p>\n
On September 11, 2025, Mikola Dziadok was released together with a group of political prisoners and forcibly expelled from Belarus; he now continues his public work in exile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“The Colors of the Parallel World” is a book by Belarusian political prisoner Mikola Dziadok, which tells of the harrowing conditions in Belarusian prisons and the struggle for human dignity in a place where humanity itself is forbidden. The author, Mikola Dziadok, was born in 1988 and, as an activist of the democratic movement, spent 10 years behind bars for his beliefs. <\/p>\n
Part of the stories was written by Mikola while in captivity, and part after his release. A distinct section among the essays is occupied by Mikola Dziadok\u2019s reflections on the nature of power relations in Ancient Greek myths, written based on what he read in the prison library. “The Colors of the Parallel World” reveals the true parallel world of the Belarusian prison system: with its evil and kindness, joy and betrayal, honesty and treachery. Horrifying stories are interspersed with uplifting episodes, and the abyss of inhumanity contrasts with lofty acts of the human spirit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2655],"product_tag":[2985,2962,2961,2963],"class_list":["post-37200","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-journalism-essays","product_tag-anarchism","product_tag-human-rights","product_tag-political-prisoners","product_tag-repressions","pa_autar-mikola-dziadok","pa_hod-vydannia-1755","pa_iliustracyi-black-and-white","pa_litaratura-belarusian","pa_mova-english","pa_vokladka-paperback","pa_vydaviectva-lixoy-star","pa_zanr-documentary","pa_zanr-essay","pa_zanr-memoir","first","instock","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/37200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/37200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41857,"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/37200\/revisions\/41857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=37200"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=37200"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamarouka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=37200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}