On 29 March 2012 the Federal Migration Service of Russia gave Finnish citizen Antti Rautiainen, a member of Autonomous Action, an order to leave the Russian Federation within 15 days. According to the order, Rautiainen is suspected of “making statements for the violent overthrow of the constitutional order.” Migration authorities have commented, that such decisions […]
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This letter was given to Masha’s friends by one of her lawyers, Nikolay Polozov. It was written back when she didn’t have an opportunity to pass letters to anyone. She was transferred to a more densely-populated prison cell after. March 12, 2012 Second day of pre-trial detention. My only cell-mate Nina and I sleep on
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From the first months of the initiative ‘Food Not Bombs’ in Minsk, the participants were faced with police attention. Initially, these ‘encounters’ were irregular and probably coincidental. But since the end of 2009 the police was deliberately attending food distribution. ABC Belarus collected references to these situations from open sources, describing only part of all
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The Supreme Court of Belarus has dismissed supervisory complaint against the verdict of Ihar Alinevich. It has been done in almost half a year later the supervisory complaint was accepted for consideration, Belarusian Partisan informs. The Supreme Court of Belarus has dismissed the complaint of Ihar Alinevich, a political prisoner, to consider the verdict in
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Today, Minsk Tsentralny District Court has considered the administrative charges brought against the teenagers arrested during the “Food Not Bombs” benefit concert held in the city’s MTZ Palace of Culture on 24 March. All of them faced charges under Art. 17.1 of the Administrative Code (“disorderly conduct”): Aliaksandr Yarashevich – BYR 105,000 fine; Mikita Ulasenka
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