Colors of the Parallel World was published in 2017 in the Belarusian Prison Literature series, founded by the Viasna Human Rights Center. The book is devoted to the analysis of the Belarusian prison system and what methods the administration uses to break the will of prisoners.
In 2017, Mikoła Dziadok received the Francišak Alachnovič Award, which was founded jointly by PEN Belarus and Radio Svaboda and is given for the best work written in prison.
On June 29, 2021, the trial of Mikoła Dziadok began in the Minsk City Court. Charges have been filed upon Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order or active participation in them), Art. 361 of the Criminal Code (inciting for actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus), Art. 295-3 of the Criminal Code (illegal actions in relation to objects with the use of combustible substances).
On November 24, 2020, he was recognized as a political prisoner.
On November 10, 2021, the Minsk City Court sentenced Mikoła Dziadok. Judge Anastasia Papko found him guilty under three articles of the Criminal Code: art. 342, Art. 361, Art. 295-3. Mikoła Dziadok was sentenced to five years in prison. The political prisoner did not plead guilty to any of the charges.
On December 16, 2021, the administration of Prison No.4 in Mahiloŭ placed Mikoła on a preventive record as “prone to suicide and mutilation.” In a letter, Mikoła said that he was put in solitary confinement on New Year’s Day, but the reason and duration of this punishment are unknown.
On January 25, 2022, the panel of the Supreme Court considered the appeal against the sentence of Mikoła Dziadok and rejected it, so the sentence remained unchanged.
On February 12, 2022, Mikoła was transferred from Prison No. 4 to Correctional Colony No. 9. The administration of the colony immediately started pressuring the political prisoner: he was assigned a so-called low-status job. Mikoła refused to comply with it, as it would automatically give him the lowest status in the facility. Consequently, he was placed in a solitary confinement for 7 days; was deprived of family visits, and their relatives were only allowed to come for 2 basic ones. Correspondence with Dziadok was also hindered.
On March 10, 2022, Mikoła refused to work as a sign of protest against the persecution of those convicted who communicate with the political prisoner and the fact that no correspondence was allowed to reach him. For this, the administration punished Dziadek with four months in a cell-type facility. Additionally, two convicts who continued to communicate with him were placed in a detention center.
On March 23, 2022, the political prisoner was added to the “List of persons involved in extremist activities.”
On June 28, 2022, the Horacki District Court heard the case “on the transfer of Mikoła Dziadok to a different type of correctional facility and change of imprisonment conditions.” Judge Stanisłaŭ Lašenka decided to transfer Mikoła a closed correctional facility for 2 years and 10 months. At the beginning of July, Mikoła a was transferred from PC No. 9 to Hrodna Prison No. 1.
Mail address: Mikoła Dziadok Prison No. 1, 230023, Hrodna, vulica Kirava 1