New criminal case opened against blogger Mikola Dziadok

He learned about this from his par­ents, who were sum­moned for inter­ro­ga­tion. How­ev­er, Miko­la does not know the exact offense he is charged with.

Miko­la Dzi­adok in Vil­nius, Sep­tem­ber 14, 2025. Pho­to: spring96.org

“Things have gone crazy these past few days! My fam­i­ly was told they’ve opened a new crim­i­nal case against me. Sup­pos­ed­ly for ‘extrem­ist’ posts or state­ments. In Vit­seb­sk, of all places. Now they’re haul­ing my par­ents in for inter­ro­ga­tions,” Miko­la Dzi­adok wrote on his Threads page.

Miko­la Dzi­adok is a for­mer jour­nal­ist for the inde­pen­dent news­pa­per Novy Chas, a blog­ger, anar­chist activist, and for­mer polit­i­cal pris­on­er. On Novem­ber 10, 2021, the Min­sk City Court sen­tenced him to 5 years of impris­on­ment under polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed charges.

In May 2025, the Cen­tral Dis­trict Court of Min­sk des­ig­nat­ed his social media pages on VKon­tak­te, Face­book, and Insta­gram as “extrem­ist con­tent,” and the web­site mikola.noblogs.org was also rec­og­nized as “extrem­ist.”

On Sep­tem­ber 11, 2025, Miko­la Dzi­adok was released as one of 52 Belaru­sian polit­i­cal pris­on­ers who were forcibly relo­cat­ed to Lithua­nia. After his release, he gave sev­er­al inter­views to inde­pen­dent media about deten­tion con­di­tions and con­tin­ues his blog­ging activ­i­ties.