# Arrests of Belarusians in Latvia

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/arrests-belarusians-latvia/
- Published: 1924-06-21T17:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T01:42:30+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- EN edition: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/arrests-belarusians-latvia-2.md
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/aryshty-bielarusau-u-latvii.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/aresty-belorusov-latvii.md

> In Latvia the political police arrested the director of the Belarusian gymnasium in Dzvinsk and several teachers during the final examinations. The newspaper holds that those arrested are cultural workers, and sees in this evidence of persecutions that have still not stopped.

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On 13 June, during the final examinations at the Dzvinsk Belarusian Gymnasium, the Latvian political police arrested, without any cause, the director of the Gymnasium, citizen Ivan Kraskouski, and its teachers Andrej Jakubecki, Korci and Paulina Miadziolka-Hrybovaja, as "political criminals". The examinations were halted.

This first act of violence by the authorities against Belarusians in Latvia made a very heavy impression and caused general indignation among the Belarusian public, all the more so because those arrested are exclusively cultural workers and have not engaged in any political activity in Latvia. The best representatives of the Latvian public are also indignant.

Earlier still, at the end of May, the former director of the Belarusian Gymnasium in Liucyn, K. Jezavitau, was arrested. As we are informed, the investigator brings no charge against him and does not release him, because the political police are still "searching" and cannot find any evidence, since none exists, of Jezavitau's "criminal" activity.

It is thought that all these acts of violence against Belarusians are the result of false denunciations by our age-old "friends"….