Aliaksandr Frantskevich

Repression methods in Belarus: Persecution of anarchist prisoners’ parents

It’s not only criminalised to express any form of dissent in Belarus. Showing solidarity with political prisoners is also punishable, even when it comes from their parents. In the following three examples, you will learn how this form of repression looks like in the case of anarchists. Arresting relatives to put pressure on exiled activists […]

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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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News on anarchist political prisoners in Belarus, November 2023

In mid-November it became publicly known that Ihar Alinevich spent 20 days in the punitive isolation cel. On 17 November, an article about Mikola Dziadok was published by the Belarusan department of Radio «Liberty»: https://www.svaboda.org/a/32688913.html (in Belarusian). Mikola is placed into in a solitary cell in the prison №1 (Hrodna) and continues his self-education: he

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News on anarchist political prisoners in Belarus, October 2023

An art exhibition Breathing Lessons took place in Pisa (Italy) in October. In its first part (5-13 October), the works of anarchist artist Uladzislau Bokhan were exhibited among works of others. Curators of the exhibition also included the works of anarchist Siarhei Ramanau, drawn in imprisonment in Belarus (currently, Siarhei serves his 20 year ‘terrorism’

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