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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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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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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In early December, the KGB (Belarusian secret service) included Anastasia Kukhta into the list of “persons who bear relation to terrorist activity.”In November, she had been sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment on charges of participation in 2020 protests (art. 342 of the Criminal Code), calls for sanctions or other actions aimed to harm national
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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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