On 1 May in Brno (Czech Republic) a premiere of the play “On the Way to Magadan: Don’t Believe, Don’t Be Afraid, Don’t Ask” took place (the image shows a scene from the play) based on the book by the Belarusian anarchist Ihar Alinevich, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison last year. The […]
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In the beginning of March Anastasiya Kukhta faced criminal prosecution. Initially she had been detained on 17 February on administrative charges, her apartment had been searched and she had been sentenced to 15 days of arrest. On 4 March, she became a suspect in a criminal case, and on 12 March she was charged with
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Mikita Jemialjanau again was placed to a punishment isolation cell on 18 January. His term there was prolonged again and again, as prison administration invented new reasons to isolate him. For instance, Mikita refuses to clean a courtyard where inmates walk. Unlike other inmates, Mikita does not litter in a courtyard, so he sees no
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At the beginning of January it became known that Mikalai Dziadok was put in a punishment cell for three days on New Year’s Eve, and has been precautionary filed as “prone to suicide and self-mutilation” – for having cut his hands and stomach six years ago in a correctional institution. The anarchist already has seven
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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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