Aliaksandr was born on 6 May 1990 in Navapolatsk. Later he moved to Minsk a long time ago and started a carrier in IT. The activist is interested in computers, technology, enjoys reading and travailing.

His mother and other relatives, as well as comrades are waiting for him on the outside.

Political views

Sasha came to anarchism through anti-fascism. He thinks along the same lines a Bakunin.

In 2010, along with other comrades, he was arrested in the “anarchists’ case” and accused of hacking into a government website and participating in several direct actions. He was released from prison in 2013 and continued his activism, but was later forced to move to Ukraine because of persecution. However, in 2019, he was deported back to Belarus at the request of the Ukrainian special service. The reason was his political activities in Ukraine.

Aliaksandr stood for “revolutionary anarchism” and supported the organisation Revolutionary Action, whose ideological platform was anarcho-communism, social anarchism and illegalism.

* ABC-Belarus withdrew its support for Aliaksandr Frantskevich in 2015 for using violence against comrades, threatening our collective, and his position on the collective property of the movement. After Aliaksandr’s arrest in 2020, ABC declared critical support for him, read more in the statement.

Detention and conviction

Frantskevich was detained in Minsk on 12 August 2020. He was charged with organising mass riots, setting up an international criminal organisation of anarchists, inciting hatred against the police, destructing property, and other crimes (a total of 13 articles of the Criminal Code).

The international criminal organisation charges was pressed by cops in February 2021. Law enforcers claim that the organisation had cells in various cities and countries and was sponsored by informal foundations. A total of 10 people were involved in the Revolutionary Action case, with some five more wanted.

On 6 September 2022, Aliaksandr was sentenced to 17 years in prison. The sentence was later commuted by three months.

Conditions of detention

During his detention, cops tried to obtain a confession from Frantskevich by torturing him with a stun gun, and it is known that KGB officers came to the pre-trial detention centre several times, applying pressure for the same purpose.

In custody, he only receives letters from his mother.

In one of his letters, Aliaksandr wrote:

I have finished Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. The book is informative and provides a lot of useful information. But the conclusions and some of the logic are questionable and biased. He initially sets out to prove Hobbes' idea that centralised power has reduced the amount of violence in a controlled territory compared to primitive societies. And then he manipulates the rather sketchy facts in every possible way to prove it.

‘Revolutionary Action’ case sent to court. 10 political prisoners involved in it

The decision of the court of Volkovysk district, which on June 24th considered a new criminal case against Aliaksandr Frantskevich, became known: the anarchist was sentenced to an additional year in the colony for allegedly malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration under part 2 of article 411 of the Criminal Code.

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