In the media
Interviews and articles, newest first. My name appears in several spellings: Piotr Markielau, Piotr Markiełaŭ, Pyotr Markelau, Пётр Маркелаў, Пятро Маркелаў, Петр Маркелов.
Profile by Daniella Lukach: from physics student to exile, and why I question parts of the Western funding system for Belarusian civil society.
Announcement of ZOLAK, a Belarusian space in Vilnius, naming me among its founders.
Profile covering my work on luka.zone, a database of about 7,000 people linked to political repression in Belarus.
Interview on how luka.zone works and what its database of people involved in political repression lets anyone search.
Interview after the protest at IKEA in Prague, on the company's Belarusian suppliers and prison labour.
Long interview on why I protested at the Prague store and what followed.
Report on the protest against IKEA's cooperation with Belarusian authorities, and my detention by Czech police.
One of five Belarusians profiled during the crisis: five arrests, 67 days in jail, and leaving through the woods.
Report of my detention during a protest at the Belarusian embassy in Kyiv.
Interview for Romanian readers on the protests and the brutality of the crackdown.
Report on my 14-day arrest for filming a vote count, and the conditions in the Akrescina detention centre.
My account of three days in the Akrescina detention centre over a Photoshopped picture of a protest.
Interview on how young activists and the mothers of drug convicts joined forces against Belarus's drug laws.
Report on Belarusian drug policy, quoting me on the 15,000 people imprisoned for drug offences.
"Interview of the Week" on decriminalising possession of small amounts and moving towards harm reduction.
My story in a campaign defending students expelled from university for their activism.
Feature on how live streams change reality. I describe streaming my own detention on a trolleybus, which reached nearly 100,000 views.
Interview at 20, as an election observer: my satirical local campaign, being expelled from university, and why this electoral system is not mine.
Profile of my run for Minsk local council at 19, as a non-party physics student.