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Moscow court sentences grad student Azat Miftakhov to six years in prison

Moscow court sentences grad student Azat Miftakhov to six years in prison

From meduza.io

Moscow’s Golovinsky District Court sentenced graduate student and anarchist activist Azat Miftakhov to six years in prison on Monday, January 18, after finding him guilty of attacking a United Russia office in 2018.

Miftakhov, who studied in the mathematics faculty at Moscow State University, pleaded not guilty to the hooliganism charges.

Two other suspects who earlier pleaded guilty in the case were given suspended sentences: Elana Gorban was sentenced to four years probation and Andrey Eykin to two years.

These were the exact sentences that state prosecutors requested for the three defendants in the case.

Miftakhov’s lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina said that they plan to challenge the verdict.

Prison Bars Won’t Stifle These Hearts

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From The Final Straw Radio

This week, we’re presenting three segments, all related in some way to prison. We hear an essay by an anarchist prisoner in Chile about a prison massacre on it’s 10th anniversary, the voice of David Easley reporting from within a covid outbreak in an Ohio prison, and the voice of someone who’s protest against nuclear weapons was leading her to incarceration.

Update on imprisoned anarchists December 25

Update on imprisoned anarchists December 25

From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

Partisan Case

From last week the anarchists from the Partisans’ case have not been allowed to have their lawyers in the KGB detention center, citing the recently introduced quarantine. The prisoners themselves only receive correspondence from relatives and very rarely from comrades/friends.

Cuba: Solidarity for the San Isidro Movement

via Freedom

At the end of November 2018, activists from the Artistic Movement of San Isidro met for the first time to demonstrate in the streets of Havana and in front of the Ministry of Culture, with the aim of obtaining the repeal of the Decree 349: a law aimed at restricting the creativity of any artistic activity on Cuba. Since the beginning of the movement, our colleagues from the Taller Libertario Alfredo López in Havana have participated in those mobilizations.

Updates on anarchist partisans from December 6

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From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus, Belarus

All four partisans (Ihar Alinevich, Sergey Romanov, Dzmitry Dubovsky and Dzmitry Rezanovich) continue to be held in the KGB detention center. According to our data, no violence is used against them. After several weeks of lawlessness, the Chekists began to accept food supplies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Anarchists

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Anarchists: Review of “The Gulag Archipelago”

From Industrial Worker by Raymond S. Solomon

Review of “The Gulag Archipelago”

Who were the most dedicated, active, and long-suffering revolutionaries in Czarist Russia? In his epic history, The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn says that it was the Socialist Revolutionaries and the Anarchists who were imprisoned the most, had the most people serving hard labor, and the most people imprisoned by the Czarist regime—many multiple the times of the Social Democrats, from which both the Bolshevik and Menshevik emerged. It was mostly Socialists Revolutionaries (SR) and the Anarchists who received the worst sentences in Czarist Russia. The Anarchists and the Socialist Revolutionaries were very similar, although not identical, ideologically. What was the reward the Anarchists and Socialist Revolutionaries received for this labor, fighting, dedication, and death?

Interview with anarchist Vlad M. after 30 days of arrest

Interview with anarchist Vlad M. after 30 days of arrest

From Pramen

We contacted our comrade, the anarchist Vlad M. after 30 days he spend in prison and talked about the detention and interesting people who you can meet at the administrative arrest. We didn’t forget to ask him about his hunger strike, as well as the situation with the coronavirus in prison.

Anarchist blogger Nikolai Dedok arrested in Belarus

Anarchist blogger Nikolai Dedok arrested in Belarus

From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

“They threatened to rape, said they would take me to the Gestapo or the forest”.

Nikolai Dedok story, handed over to Radio Svaboda.

On November 12, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on the arrest of anarchist blogger Nikolai Dedok. Then the press service of the department claimed that the detainee “actively cooperates with the investigating authorities and gives confessions.” At the same time, on the record, published together with the police press release, it is clear that Dedok was severely beaten. Now he is accused of organizing actions that grossly violate public order (Article 342 of the Criminal Code). From the person with whom Dedok managed to talk in the detention centre on Akrestsina Street, “Mediazona” learned the details of the anarchist’s detention.

The Uprising in Belarus

The Uprising in Belarus

From The Final Straw Radio

Belarus is continuing to experience a revolt against the 26 year dictatorship of the post-Soviet dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. The situation came to a boil, fueled by yet another election rife with administration corruption, the creation of mutual aid infrastructure in the face of a government that abandoned public health measures in the face of the corona virus pandemic, decreased economic quality of life… people found each other and the state turned on them. In response to the police violence, regular folks came out into the streets to oppose the dictatorship and the system threatened collapse. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

On the situation of comrades Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero

On the situation of comrades Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero

From Act for Freedom!, 29th October 2020

As you know, our comrades Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero have been in jail since July, accused of various explosive attacks that took place between July 2019 and February 2020. Legal proceedings against them are still open and so are the terms of the investigation, and there are no significant news in this respect.

4 anarchists detained at the belarusian border for direct actions

Anarchist Black Cross Belarus, Belarus, anarchists in trouble, solidarity

From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

Anarchists Dmitry Dubovsky, Igor Olinevich, Sergei Romanov and Dmitry Rezanovich were detained at the Belarusian border. Firearms, ammunition, grenades and pepper spray were found in their belongings. Everyone is accused of art. 289 (terrorism) and art. 295 (illegal arms trafficking) of the Criminal Code. The punishment under article 289 is up to the death penalty.

Solidarity to alleged terrorist organization "Comrades''

from Athens Indymedia

Solidarity to the four comrades persecuted for the alleged terrorist organization "Comrades''

It is a fact that the persecution of comrades by the police, is one more attempt at political, social and economic extermination of anarchists. These persecutions, however, face the relentless struggle for freedom and dignity. Solidarity will defeat the darkness of totalitarianism.

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