In March two antifascists from Brest, Belarus were found guilty of attacking local neonazis. Dzmitry Stsyashenka was accused of aggravated hooliganism for threatening to attack a neonazi with a knife last summer. He was sentenced to 4 years of custodial restraint. Dzmitry Zvan’ko was accused of malicious bodily harm inflicted to a group of neonazis, […]
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A court in Russia has sentenced eight protesters for rioting and attacking police at a demonstration against Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a third presidential term in 2012. Seven of the “Bolotnaya” activists received prison terms of up to four years. An eighth, the only woman on trial, received a suspended sentence. Outside the court in
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The court made a decision to toughen the imprisonment conditions for the political prisoner. Aliaksandr Dziadok, the father of the political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok told the charter97.org web-site about that: “The court decided to send my son to a closed type prison, but I do not know the circumstances”. We would remind that the reason
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After two weeks ago the case against Nizhny Novgorod antifascists (the Antifa-RASH case) was sent back to prosecutor’s office “to remove doubts, irregularities and obstacles” by a court, which is not likely to hear that case again, the case against Moscow-based antifascist Igor Kharchenko may set a precedent. The case, which is being heard by
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18th of October, lenta.ru news service transmitted that judge refused to sentence defendants of the so called “Antifa-RASH” case in Nizhni Novgorod. Judge Olga Koloverova demanded police to reinvestigate the case, in order to exclude contradictions, which are currently obvious. According to the prosecution, participators of the extremist society “Antifa-RASH” planned to overthrow constitutional order
