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Two anarchists from Belarus sentenced to 7 years for series of direct actions

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On February 12, 2020, Mikita Yemelyanau and Ivan Komar were found guilty of intentional destruction of property on several accounts. Activists were detained on October 20, 2019, just after an attack with a Molotov cocktail on the pre-trial detention facility in Minsk made in solidarity with another anarchist Dzmitry Paliyenka (who was kept there at […]

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Defendants in Network Case Receive Up to 18 Years in Prison

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The Volga District Military Court, [sitting in Penza], has [convicted and] sentenced seven defendants in the Network Case. Dmitry Pchelintsev was sentenced to 18 years in a maximum-security penal colony. Ilya Shakursky was sentenced to 16 years in a penal colony and fined 50,000 rubles. Investigators claimed they were organizers of a “terrorist community.” Both

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Mikita Jemialjanau | Nikita Emelyanov

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Mikita Jemialjanau | Nikita Emelyanov Arrest date: 20.10.2019Charges: — intentional destruction or damage to property— desecration of buildings— illegal actions with explosives— disobedience to the administration of a correctional institutionSentence: 4 years, 2 more years added for defying prison administrationPlace of detention: ST-1Release date: 20.10.2025 Mikita was born on 24 March 2000 in Minsk to

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Dzmitry Paliyenka gets 3 years of “house arrest”

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Dzmitry Paliyenka, former political prisoner and Amnesty International’s prisoner of conscience, has been sentenced to three years of “restricted freedom,” after a highly controversial trial at the Minsk City Court. The sentence will be reduced to 10 months, considering a recent amnesty and the defendant’s stay in pre-trial detention. The activist was released in the

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Call for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners August 23-30

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We are approaching the 7th International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners. For 6 years we’ve been calling you to show your solidarity with our comrades all around the world. Trials in Italy, France, Germany, Russia are bringing more and more anarchists into the mouth of the prison system. It is our duty, of those

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