Lukáš Borl, a Czech anarchist and ex-prisoner, published a D.I.Y. book Words Against isolation or As Long As There Are Prisons, Let’s Write Letters. There are two main reasons to create this publication. First is to motivate people to write to prisoners, while obtaining funds for anarchists imprisoned in so-called Belarus. Here is what Lukas […]
Author: ABC-Belarus
News from the prison called the Republic of Belarus, December 2021
On 2 December Gayane Akhtiyan, mother of an anarchist Roman Khalilov, became a suspect in a criminal case. The proceedings were instituted upon art. 342 (part 1) of the Criminal Code (organisation and preparation of activities grossly violating the public order, or active participation in them). Previously, on 26 November, the apartment of Gayane Akhtiyan […]
18 to 20 years’ imprisonment for Belarusian anarcho-partisans
The sentence was announced today for a group of anarcho-partisans who held a series of direct actions against the dictatorship about a year ago. In an attempt to isolate the activists, the trial was held in camera and only the pronouncement of the sentence was made public. Sentences: Siarhei Ramanau – 20 years Ihar Alinevich […]
ABC-Belarus statement on Dzmitry Z.
On December 5, there was a forceful seizure of Syrena squat in Warsaw, the reason for which was the attempt to move Dzmitry Z. from the squat. Z. had been living there for about five years and the long-lasting internal conflict in the squat developed into violence and threats of violence from Dima. During an […]