News on anarchist political prisoners in Belarus, December 2023

At the end of December it became known that Ihar Alinevich was once again in the punitive isolation cel. The reason and the number of days spent therre are unknown.

The dictator’s henchmen try to isolate political prisoners, but they can’t silence their books. In early December, Ihar Alinevicht’s book «On The Way To Magadan» was published in Ukrainian. The book costs 200 hryvnias and the income from sales will go to support anarchists in prisons and at the front.

Telegram channel “Right to Revolt” published the last word of Dzmitry Dubouski, spoken by him in the court of Zavodskiy district of Minsk on November 24, 2022. Then Dzmitry was tried for the events of 2010 under two articles of the Criminal Code: part 2 of article 339 (hooliganism committed repeatedly or by a group of persons) and part 2 of article 218 (willful destruction or destruction or damage to other people’s property). The anarchist did not admit his guilt and confirmed his participation in only one episode – the attack on the police checkpoint in Salihorsk.

On December 20, the Telegram channel of Mikola Dziadok support published a message (in belarusian) that the channel was recognized by the authorities as extremist.

“They are stoics and educated people” – Natalia Matskevich – lawyer, who defended Mikalai Dziadok and Ihar Alinevich, shared her impressions about anarchists in the next issue of “Life is Raspberry” (in russian).

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