Belarusian journalist details prison life in new book

July 27, BPN. Journalist Aleh Hruździłovič has presented his new book describing life in Belarusian jails and his own imprisonment.

The four-hundred-page-book “My Prison Walls” has been published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and can be downloaded online for free.

At the presentation in Vilnius, the author expressed the hope that it will help relatives of political prisoners to understand what they are going through.

Hruździłovič was arrested in 2021 and sentenced to 18 months in 2022 for alleged public order offenses, although he insisted that he attended protest rallies only as a journalist.

The authorities freed him in September 2022 after he had applied for clemency. Later that year, he received Lithuania’s prize Hope of Freedom.

Belarus was rocked by months of protests after Alaksandar Łukašenka’s disputed reelection in 2020.

The Belarusian strongman has been in power for nearly three decades.