Ihar Bantser received another administrative sentence of 15 days on the 5th of September. He was detained on the 4th of August and since then served 30 days of arrest. Overall, Ihar spent 45 days in temporary detention facility this time. Viktar “Mao” Zharkevich, a famous punk musician, was detained on the 5th of September. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
News from Belarusian prisons, October 2021
On 6 October the office of the Prosecutor General declared that the case of anarchist partisans was transferred to the court, and published details of the case. According to the version of the prosecution, on 10 October 2020 Ihar Alinevich and Dzmitry Dubovski crossed Belarusian border from Ukrainian side. On 21 October 2020 Alinevich, Dubovski, […]