Abstract
Andrej Dynko, editor of Nasha Niva, one of the last remaining independent newspapers in Belarus, was arrested on 21 March, two days after the Belarusan election, while attempting to bring food to demonstrators camped in October Square in Minsk. They were protesting the election victory of incumbent president Alaksandr Lukashenko. Along with many others taking part in the protests, Dynko was sentenced to ten days in prison for ‘hooliganism’. On the night of 27/28 March, he wrote his ‘Letter from a prison in Minsk’ from which we print the following excerpts