Russian anarchist Svetlana Tsvetkova sentenced to year of corrective labor for leaflet about police
Submitted by S2W on Jun 5 2016 11:14
31 may 2016 Taganrog City Court Judge Georgy Serebryanikov sentenced 31-year-old local resident Elizaveta Tsvetkova to a year of corrective labor for disseminating leaflets criticizing the police, reports Caucasian Knot. As published on the court’s website, the verdict stipulates that fifteen percent of Tsvetkova’s wages will be docked by the state for a year. The activist has also been charged 6,000 rubles in court costs.
ABC Moscow report on repressions, January-March 2015
Submitted by S2W on Apr 19 2015 02:01
We are proceeding with reports on repressions against anarchists and libertarian activists, as the authorities continue jailing and haunting our comrades. In this issue we have lots of "extremism": a case against
a pregnant anarchist woman accused of "propaganding hatred", criminal prosecution of an antifascist, beaten by Nazis, for a Swastika, a ban of a research-based book on Nazism.
International solidarity urged for captive Crimean anarchist Alexander Kolchenko
Submitted by S2W on Mar 11 2015 02:27
Alexander Kolchenko is a Crimean anarchist, social activist and antifascist who is held in captivity by the Russian authorities. Along with other Crimean activists, he has been kidnapped by the Russian FSB
(ex-KGB) and is now detained as a political hostage in Lefortovo jail in Moscow. He is charged with committing “acts of terrorism” and “belonging to a terrorist community”.
Aleksandr Kolchenko: I am not a terrorist. I am a citizen of Ukraine
Submitted by S2W on Nov 20 2014 19:23
The story of this interview is different from how interviews are usually
recorded. The person answering the questions is in the place not very
accessible for journalists – Lefortovo Moscow Pretrial Detention
Facility that is still known as RF FSB SIZO (RF FSB SIZO - pre-trial
detention facility of the Federal Security Service of the Russian
Federation – transl.).
Interview with the Moscow Anarchist Black Cross
Food Not Bombs interview the Russian anarchist prisoner support group.
A letter from Andrey Mergenyov and other prisoner updates from Russia
Andrei Mergenyov is imprisoned in Saratov after a fight with a Nazi in June
2007. Recently we received a following letter from him, and we translated it
just to remind you about one of the less known Russian anti-fascist
prisoners.
Sentence of Yuri Mishutkin overturned – funds are needed for the new court
Submitted by S2W on Dec 30 2009 15:56
15th of December of 2009 regional court of Primorsky overturned sentence of anarchist anti-fascist Yuri Mishutkin, who was given a one-year probational sentence for manslaughter due to exceeding necessary limits of self-defence
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