‘Not your typical inmate’ – The inspiring Belarus political prisoner who even the guards respect |

The art of letter writing is undergoing a revival in Belarus.

With its jails filled to bursting with political prisoners, letters mean the world to those inside and those who miss them. That’s if they make it past the censors.

Alexander Kolesnikov knows that his daughter Maria writes daily but he doesn’t get a lot of them.

Since the beginning of March, nothing has come through.

He said: “It…