Winter On the night of 17 January Belarusian border guards took Mikalai Dziadok off the bus Vilnius–Minsk. Dziadok was returning home from university studies. Then a personal customs examination of Dziadok was performed. No reason for special examination was given, but Dziadok himself links it to the fact of his presence in the lists of […]
Author: ABC-Belarus
Anarchist Sergey Romanov faces a second prison term
Sergey Romanov is an anarchist from Gomel, who was released from the penitentiary in summer 2019. Before that we had not written about his case at the request of Sergei himself, he saw no point in revealing his data and details of the case. For many years, Sergey was constantly persecuted by law enforcement agencies […]
Comrades from Rojava express solidarity with anarchist in Russia and Belarus
This month, first sentences were given to anarchists in «Network» case in Russia. They were given from 6 up to 18 years in prison. In addition to that, two other anarchists were imprisoned in Belarus for 7 years. As anarchist and socialist comrades in Rojava, we join the call for the week of solidarity. We […]
Two anarchists from Belarus sentenced to 7 years for series of direct actions
On February 12, 2020, Mikita Yemelyanau and Ivan Komar were found guilty of intentional destruction of property on several accounts. Activists were detained on October 20, 2019, just after an attack with a Molotov cocktail on the pre-trial detention facility in Minsk made in solidarity with another anarchist Dzmitry Paliyenka (who was kept there at […]
Defendants in Network Case Receive Up to 18 Years in Prison
The Volga District Military Court, [sitting in Penza], has [convicted and] sentenced seven defendants in the Network Case. Dmitry Pchelintsev was sentenced to 18 years in a maximum-security penal colony. Ilya Shakursky was sentenced to 16 years in a penal colony and fined 50,000 rubles. Investigators claimed they were organizers of a “terrorist community.” Both […]