Local historian and journalist Ihar Khmara were detained for speaking Belarusian on a Minsk street. This was told by his cellmate from the Minsk detention center on Akrestsina, the human rights center "

Khmara was detained on the evening of August 2 during a tour of Minsk - he often led them in Belarusian.

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Before the First World War in the Czech Republic, which was part of the powerful Austria-Hungary, speaking Czech in public places could also land you in jail. Literally a few years later, Austria-Hungary, which lost in the war unleashed by it, was gone, and the Czech language and Czech culture were reborn almost from non-existence..