Andrei Chepyuk

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 about Belarusian anarchist prisoners from March 2023

On March 22, the Volkovysk District Court (Judge Sergeyko N.A.) ruled to transfer Nikita Yemelyanov to a prison regime from correctional camp. We remind you that in March last year, Nikita was sentenced to an additional 2 years of imprisonment, allegedly for malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of prison No. 4 in

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News on anarchist political prisoners in Belarus, February 2023

On 7 February, Dzmitry Dubouski’s appeal hearing took place in the Minsk City Court. Judge Jauhien Pisarevich left the sentence unchanged. Dzmitry’s cumulative sentence for participation in direct actions in 2008-2010 and in 2020 is 20 years of imprisonment.On 25 February Dzmitry was transferred to a penal colony nr. 3 near Viciebsk. Also on 7

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Report on the repressions of anarchists in 2022

2022 brought the repressions and squashing of any free thought at the same scale as in 2021. After the full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, conducted though the Belarusian territory as well, things couldn’t be different. Lukashenko’s dictatorship needed to subdue everyone who could rebel against it. Criminal prosecution Receiving information about politically motivated

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An overview of repressions against anarchists and antifascists in Belarus in 2021

ABC-Belarus countered unprecedented quantity of repressions in 2021. We cannot say that it was unexpected. We expected exactly this after 2020 protests. But such predictability doesnʼt make the burden of anti-repression activism easier. The difference with previous waves of repression is that the massive repressions against anarchists and antifascists are happening simultaneously with even more

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