Dmitry Mikhailov

2 24.06.2025, 9:45 5,766 Story by Dmitry Mikhailov. In three years, he lost 26 kilograms and turned completely gray - this is how political prisoner, Latvian citizen Dmitri Mihailov returned to Riga from prison in Belarus. His crime was criticizing the regime on the Internet. He was arrested a year and a half after the comments, tried and given four years in prison, lsm.lv reports.

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