Journalist and writer Seviaryn Kviatkoŭski, who was prosecuted in Belarus, has left the country

February 2, BPN. Journalist and writer Seviaryn Kviatkoŭski, who was prosecuted in Belarus, has left the country.

“I escaped from Mordor. I am in a free country now,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

On January 19, the BY_culture Telegram channel reported that Kviatkoŭski was detained in the apartment of his relatives. “According to some preliminary information, a criminal case has been opened against him for a comment on Facebook. He was taken to Pinsk for investigation,” the message said.

On the same day, the Telegram channel GUBOP close to the power bloc, posted a video where Kviatkoŭski said that he reposted a YouTube video “where the headline included an insult of a Brest police officer.”

Three days later, on January 22, he was released.

“Friends, I’m in the center of Pinsk, drinking coffee. It was like a movie, a circus, and an army joke,” he wrote on social networks. However, the journalist noted that a criminal case has been opened against him, but did not specify under which article of the Criminal Code.

Kviatkoŭski worked as a journalist on Radio 101.2 FM, in the newspapers Imia and Naša Niva, in the Belarusian service of the Polish Radio, on Radio Racyja and Radio Svaboda. He is a member of the Union of Belarusian Writers. Kviatkoŭski authored several Belarusian-language books.