At the beginning of January it became known that Mikalai Dziadok was put in a punishment cell for three days on New Year’s Eve, and has been precautionary filed as “prone to suicide and self-mutilation” – for having cut his hands and stomach six years ago in a correctional institution. The anarchist already has seven […]
Tag: Sergey Romanov
An overview of repressions against anarchists and antifascists in Belarus in 2021
ABC-Belarus countered unprecedented quantity of repressions in 2021. We cannot say that it was unexpected. We expected exactly this after 2020 protests. But such predictability doesnʼt make the burden of anti-repression activism easier. The difference with previous waves of repression is that the massive repressions against anarchists and antifascists are happening simultaneously with even more […]
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 […]
News from Belarusian prisons, November 2021
On 1 November anarchist Sergey Romanov was sentenced to 1 year of penal colony for ‘defying the measures of preventive surveillance’. More details: https://abc-belarus.org/?p=14417&lang=enIt was a separate trial; Sergey is simultaneously a defendant in another trial described below. On 2 November Revolutionary Action, and on 12 November Pramen were officially recognised by Belarusian authorities as […]