Igor Bancer

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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News from the prison called the Republic of Belarus, December 2021

On 2 December Gayane Akhtiyan, mother of an anarchist Roman Khalilov, became a suspect in a criminal case. The proceedings were instituted upon art. 342 (part 1) of the Criminal Code (organisation and preparation of activities grossly violating the public order, or active participation in them). Previously, on 26 November, the apartment of Gayane Akhtiyan

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News from Belarusian prisons, November 2021

On 1 November anarchist Sergey Romanov was sentenced to 1 year of penal colony for ‘defying the measures of preventive surveillance’. More details: https://abc-belarus.org/?p=14417&lang=enIt was a separate trial; Sergey is simultaneously a defendant in another trial described below. On 2 November Revolutionary Action, and on 12 November Pramen were officially recognised by Belarusian authorities as

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