Posts Tagged ‘Belarus’
Belarus ABC Infotour 2013 – United Kingdom
Friday, February 15th, 2013
325 recently received an email from London ABC who are part of organizing a tour for a member of the Belarus ABC about repression in that country. London ABC asked us to publicize their meeting in Freedom Bookshop, but instead we publish the details of the entire tour. We’ve previously reported repression and resistance news from Belarus. You can find the reports in our Belarus section.
1. London (first meeting): Friday 15th February 2013, 7pm. The Autonomy Club. Freedom Bookshop. Angel Alley. 84b Whitechapel High Street. London E1 7QX. Nearest Tube Aldgate East.
2. Brighton: Sunday 17th February. Cowley Club, London Road, Brighton. 6-8pm.
3. London (second meeting): Tuesday 19th February, 8pm. University of London SOAS, Room 116, Main Building, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG.
4. Egham: Thursday 21st February. Royal Holloway University, Room & start time TBC.
5. Cardiff: Saturday 23rd February, 6pm Wells hotel, 77 Craddock St. CF11 6EW.
6. Leeds: Sunday 24rd February. Wharf Chambers, 23 Wharf St Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 7EQ. Start time TBC.
7. Manchester: Tuesday 26th February, The Kings Arms, Salford. Time TBC.
8. Glasgow: Thursday, 28th February, Kinning Park Complex, 40 Cornwall Street, Glasgow. 7.00pm.
9. Edinburgh (probable date, TBC): Saturday 2nd March.
10. Nottingham: Tuesday 5th March. 7.30pm. The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.
11. Oxford: Wednesday 6th March. Albion Beatnik Bookshop, 34 Walton Street. 7.30pm.
12. Bristol: Thursday 7th of March 2013, 6.30pm. Kebele Community Co-operative, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol
For more information about the prisoners and the ABC in Belarus: http://abc-belarus.org
Tags: ABC Belarus, ABC London, Belarus, Repression
Posted in Prison Struggle
Pavel Syramolatau is free (Belarus)
Friday, October 5th, 2012
We’re glad to announce that after 620 days in prison Pavel Syramolatau was released from prison by president pardon on September 27th.
Pavel was arrested on January 17th 2011 due to attack on KGB building in Bobruisk, which was announced as solidarity action with anarchists arrested in Minsk in September 2010. In may 2011 after more than six months of investigation he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. Their action were classified by court as destruction of private property.
Under pressure of colony administration he signed petition for pardon this June.
Currently five more people supported by Anarchist Black Cross are in prison: Artsiom Prakapenka, Jauhen Vas’kovich, Ihar Alinievich, Aliaksandar Frantskievich and Mikalai Dziadok. All of them are strongly against petitions for pardon and ready to spend all of the sentence in the prison, rather than asking president for release.
Original: http://abc-belarus.org/?p=2550?=en
Older news on Belarusian prisoners: http://avtonom.org/en/freebelarus
Tags: Belarus, Pavel Syramolatau
Posted in Prison Struggle
Brest KGB search anti-fascist homes + London Solidarity Demo for Imprisoned Anarchists (Belarus)
Sunday, September 9th, 2012
Update: Belarus Embassy communications blockade declared for London demo – 1pm September 23rd.
On 06/09/2012 representatives of Brest KGB made an appearance at homes of 4 Brest antifascist and social activists.
Notebooks, PCs, flash-cards, cell phones and various books have been seized. KGB states that it suspects anarchists of planting a fake bomb on 8 February of 2012 in a garbage bin. Although the case is under police supervision, somehow KGB got involved in the matter. Three of our comrades got “invitational letters” from KGB for an interview. (more…)
Tags: Aliaksandr Frantskievich, Artsiom Prakapenka, Belarus, Demo, Ihar Alinevich, Jauhen Vas'kovich, Mikalai Dziadok, Pavel Syramolatau, Repression, Solidarity Action
Posted in Prison Struggle, Social Control
Mikashevichi: Energy supply sabotaged at granite quarry (Belarus)
Sunday, July 8th, 2012
325 receives and transmits:
On June 11th a booth that provided power to granite quarry in Mikashevichi (Belarus) was burnt by a group of dedicated earth liberation warriors. Resulting short circuit left quarry and nearby village in total darkness. It was a strange feeling to suddenly hear silence where just a minute before there had been constant industrial noise. To see stars in the sky that had been blocked out by quarry lights just moments before.
2 incendiaries (5 liters of gasoline each) were used for this action.
We salute imprisoned Belarus anarchists (Ihar Alinevich, Mikalai Dziadok, Aliaksandr Frantskievich) persecuted for their acts of sabotage against Lukashenko’s regime. This new act of sabotage on territory, occupied by Belarus state, is in your honour.
Words of gratitude to Ted Kaczynski. Your thoughts served as a light-beacon to us in this action.
To every anti-authoritarian and eco-activist: keep fighting, stay strong and free!
- Friends of Freedom
Tags: Aliaksandr Frantskievich, Arson, Belarus, Ihar Alinevich, Mikalai Dziadok, Mikashevichi, Sabotage, Ted Kaczynski
Posted in Eco Struggle
June 30th – July 2nd: Call for common actions in solidarity with imprisoned anarchists (Belarus)
Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
From Avtonom:
It has been a long time since the last call for solidarity with the Belarusian anarchists appeared. Today we have to admit that the new wave of solidarity is needed urgently to help them out from the prison. That’s why we call you to participate in days of action in solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners from June 30 to July 2.
The activists Ihar Alinevich, Mikalai Dziadok, Artsiom Prakapenka, Pavel Syramolatau, Aliaksandr Frantskievich, Jauhen Vas’kovich that were detained in Autumn 2010 and Winter 2011 and then sentenced to 3 to 8 years of prison in May 2011 for a series of attacks on state and capital symbols are finishing their second year in jail. During this time their comrades and relatives did their best to help them feel comfortable in custody and set them free. (more…)
Tags: Aliaksandr Frantskievich, Artsiom Prakapenka, Belarus, Ihar Alinevich, International Solidarity, Jauhen Vas’kovich, Mikalai Dziadok, Pavel Syramolatau
Posted in Prison Struggle
Solidarity actions for Social Centre Satama, Roma migrants and anarchist prisoners (Finland)
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
The following communique was originally published in the Finnish anarchist portal Takku.net. During the last weekend an Islamist blogger tried to take credit for the bomb and molotov cocktails, until an anarchist communique was published on Monday 6.6.11, putting the attacks within the anti-state/anti-capitalist frame of struggle. Mainstream media news can be found here: 1 & 2
From the comrades:
“Tuesday night 13.4.2011 we burned five dumpsters at Pukinmäki train station in Helsinki. We also wrote some slogans for free spaces on some walls.
During the next two nights we burned dumpsters at several places in the city of Vantaa.
Tuesday 19.4. we attacked the police; we set up a bonfire on the street, and when the police showed up, we greeted them with stones and paint bombs. The police responded by attacking the nearby Social Centre Satama, which they found empty after a long siege and assault inside.
During the night 31.5.-1.6. in the district of Pukinmäki, Helsinki, we closed the Kenttätie-road, frequently used by the police, by setting several dumpsters on fire.
Early Friday morning 3.6. in the Helsinki district of Pasila, we put a bomb under Turvatiimi’s (a private security company) car. Although the bomb was fully functional, we decided not to explode it, to ensure that bystanders and workers in other nearby companies wouldn’t be put in danger. This is also why we placed the bomb so that everyone in the courtyard could see it.
Early Saturday morning 4.6. we attacked two gas stations with molotov cocktails in the Helsinki district of Tapaninvainio.
Monday morning 6.6. we called bomb threats to the following embassies: Belarus, Russia, Spain, Mexico, Chile, United States, Germany, Greece, Italy.
We chose these countries because of the ongoing struggles there. We wanted to make the representatives of these countries feel a bit of the fear, that our anarchist comrades face in their everyday struggle against the violence machine of the state.
With these attacks we want to show our solidarity to the comrades of Social Centre Satama and their struggle for free space. We also send revolutionary greetings to the Roma migrants in Helsinki, who are oppressed daily by the violent apparatus of the state.
With these attacks we also express our support to every anarchist prisoner, and want to remind that the struggle will continue despite the attempts at repression by the state. The time of empty talk is over, long live anarchy!“
Tags: Arson, Belarus, Bomb threats, Chile, Finland, Germany, Greece, Helsiniki, International Solidarity, Italy, Mexico, Roma, Russia, Sabotage, Social Centre Satama, Spain, Turvatiimi, United States
Posted in Direct Action
Anarchists imprisoned for up to 8 years after repressive wave (Belarus)
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Belarusian anarchists sentenced – up to 8 years of hard regime, evidence lacking.
On the 27th of May, judge Zhanna Khvoynitskaya sentenced the Belarusian anarchists Ihar Alinevich, Mikalaj Dziadok, Aliaksandar Frantskievich, Maxim Vetkin and Yeveni Slivonchik. The young men were accused of a number of political actions, amongst which was the attack against the Russian embassy in Minsk in August of 2010. (more…)
Tags: Aliaksandar Frantskievich, Belarus, Ihar Alinevich, Maxim Vetkin, Mikalaj Dziadok, Repression, Yeveni Slivonchik
Posted in Social Control
May 12-15: A Call for Common Actions in Solidarity with Belarusian Anarchists (Belarus)
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
It’s been 7 months now since the “case of arsons” was started in Belarus.
All this time our friends and comrades have been held behind the bars. Having started with random detentions of activists of radically different political views in September last year, the case is finally coming to an end – it is being brought to trial. At the moment 7 people targeted in the investigation of “the anarchists’ case” are staying under arrest. (more…)
Tags: Aliaksandr Frantskevich, Belarus, Ihar Alinevich, International Solidarity, Mikalai Dziadok, Repression
Posted in Prison Struggle
Short update of the recent repressions against anarchists (Belarus)
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
As of right now, four Belarussian anarchists are under arrest, accused of having organised a series of direct actions 2009-2010.
Everything started long before this past September (2010). The years 2009-2010 were rich in radical actions claimed by Belarussian anarchists. (more…)
Tags: Anarchist Black Cross Moscow, Attack, Belarus, International Solidarity, Repression
Posted in Social Control
Molotovs against Russian Embassy in Minsk (Belarus)
Monday, September 13th, 2010
30 August 2010
“On the evening of 30.08.2010 a group of anarchists have attacked by Molotov cocktails Russian embassy in Minsk. One of the diplomat cars was burnt. By this action we express our fury and protest to the arrests and repressions against defenders of Khimki forest in Moscow.
While our friends are beaten up by fascist mercenaries, riot police are pressing and arresting innocent people – treats and arrests became everyday routine. Our friends now have to suffer in jails or live in fear to be imprisoned just because they fight for freedom, people and environment.
But bureaucrats and capitalists care just for their bribes and profits, they don’t care what happens tomorrow, they are ready to abolish every protest or disagreement with cruelty. What comes next – the death squads?
We declare solidarity with our comrades and support only method of direct action, because government are afraid of power only and nothing else.
It is really funny to read some comments on Internet forums. Both clans, called “Government of Republic of Belarus” and “Government of Russian Federation” disgust us. Poor workers of both countries never take any benefit from this fighting for power. It is foolishly to imitate politicians. People, come to your senses! Is it really impossible to explain any act of protest by theories of conspiracy? We meet stealing and humiliation every day – but around there are only fear in the eyes and whisper in the kitchens. It is time to summon our forces and believe that we are worthy of a better life.
Free all imprisoned comrades! Stop political repressions! Down with officials, gangsters and policemen!
Human rights and social justice!”
(more…)
Tags: Belarus, International Solidarity, Khimki, Minsk, Molotovs, Repression, Russia
Posted in Direct Action, Eco Struggle, Social Control
Anarchist attack against elite casino in Minsk (Belarus)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
5 December 2009 : In early morning hours of 5th of December anarchists of Minsk threw smoke bombs and made graffiti at elite casino “Shangri-La” of Minsk.
Graffiti says “you already lost”
Tags: Belarus, Graffiti, Minsk, Shangri-La Casino, Smoke Bombs
Posted in Direct Action
