Dzmitry Paliyenka, former political prisoner and Amnesty International’s prisoner of conscience, has been sentenced to three years of “restricted freedom,” after a highly controversial trial at the Minsk City Court. The sentence will be reduced to 10 months, considering a recent amnesty and the defendant’s stay in pre-trial detention. The activist was released in the […]
Author: ABC-Belarus
Call for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners August 23-30
We are approaching the 7th International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners. For 6 years we’ve been calling you to show your solidarity with our comrades all around the world. Trials in Italy, France, Germany, Russia are bringing more and more anarchists into the mouth of the prison system. It is our duty, of those […]
Support an anarchist who was sentenced in co-called Germany
This person was captured by a civilian security guard in a shopping mall while nonviolently expropriating some goods. Without noticing he has a small pocket knife on him which he didn’t want to use as weapon. Even though he was accused of: A theft with a weapon prepared to use. The German court imposed punishment […]
European games in Belarus: what will they bring to common Belarusians?
Belarus is to host II European Games in Minsk in June-July this year. Former anarchist prisoner Mikalai Dziadok wrote a few articles on this issue, here is one of them. Belarusian government does a lot to assure foreigners that Belarus is a democratic and safe country. It even lobbied the right to hold the II […]
Dzmitry Palijenka detained again, charged under three criminal articles
Dzmitry Palijenka was detained on March 20, 2019 on suspicion of committing a crime under part 3 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code (“Extremely gross misconduct”). He was accused of pepper spraying a drunk man at the entrance of the block of flats where the activist was expecting a friend. The man tried to […]