Author name: ABC-Belarus

Chronicle of repressions against anarchists and anti-fascists in 2024

The main “novelty” of the past year was mass repressions against relatives of serving and released political prisoners. On January 23, mass searches and detentions of relatives took place in Belarus, and phones were taken away from the detainees for inspection. The articles under which the detentions and searches are carried out are “Financing of […]

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News on anarchist political prisoners November – December 2024

Aleksandr Frantskevich was transferred to a different penal colone after his trial for “infringement of prison administration’s requests”. He was transferred there at the beginning of October. As a result of the trial, a year was added to his 17-year sentence. Write Aleksandr a letter On 26th of October the court rejected Sergey Romanov’s appeal

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ABC Belarus suspends support for Vital Shyshlou

On 25 August, Siarhei Piatrukhin, a former political prisoner from Belarus, published a video on his YouTube channel. In the video, he spoke about political prisoners held in Correctional Facility No. 3 who cooperate with the prison administration. They often report on other prisoners and receive preferential treatment, such as extra visits, care packages and

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“Administration is trying to eradicate any solidarity, but we were still one small family.” Kristina Cherenkova’s story of captivity

Antifascist from Mozyr Kristina Cherenkova was detained on March 23, 2022 together with her husband. Later the girl was accused of inciting social hatred for unflattering remarks in her personal Instagram account on Belarusian cops and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison. Having served her sentence Christina was released on April 11, 2024. We talked

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News on anarchist political prisoners in Belarus, January 2024

28 anarchists and antifascists remain in prison, Oleg Avdeenko is under home arrest. Czech writer, musician and dissident Jachim Topol shared his impression of Igor Olinevich’s book “Going to Magadan” in an interview with Euroradio: “And this book about the Belarusian prison of today is absolutely gorgeous, very strong, beautifully written. And, of course, horrifying.

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