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Он перебирает документы, и я вижу, как он задерживает взгляд на моей объяснительной с картинками. Говорит: «Угу», — и уже хочет писать количество суток штрафного изолятора, которое он мне назначает. И тут замполит <…> выхватывает у него документы и говорит: «Ну-ка, дай сюда, посмотрю». Долистывает до моей объяснительной: «Это что? Мышь? Она что — дохлая?!». Я ему говорю: «Ну, обратите внимание, там нарисован цветочек. Цветочек символизирует жизнь. Там нарисовано солнышко. Солнышко символизирует счастье. А дохлая мышь символизирует всю вашу систему».
Не можна не любити Вітю, Вітя охуєнний
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Out of 95 Ukrainians in POW exchange yesterday 46 were the unlawfully sentenced, including Maksym. This is new and this is good. Before, this was a rare case. Freeing those imprisoned should not get out of the priory list, because the conditions of Russian prison are extremely inhumane for them.
Azov’s Prokopenko rushes to emphasise that there are 34 “azovians” among those exchanged (because of course he will, Azov’s omnipresence will last). Them returning home is good, whatever your opinion on Azov is—there’s no justice in Russian courts, and Azov as a rhethoric device often has little to do with those people.
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‼️ Maksym Butkevych is out!
Ukrainian media ZMINA: Maksym’s father, Olexander confirms that Maksym has been exchanged today https://zmina.info/news/rosiya-zvilnyla-spivzasnovnyka-czentru-prav-lyudyny-zmina-maksyma-butkevycha/
Ukrainian antifascist and journalist was captured in June 2022 by Russian forces as a combatant, and spent 28 months in captivity, first, at a detention center in Luhansk, then, after unlawful trail—at a high security penal labor colony in Luhanschyna.
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‼️ Maksym Butkevich is out!
Ukrainian media say Maksym’s father, Olexander confirms that Maksym was exchanged today https://zmina.info/news/rosiya-zvilnyla-spivzasnovnyka-czentru-prav-lyudyny-zmina-maksyma-butkevycha/
Ukrainian antifascist and journalist was captured in June 2022 by Russian forces as a combatant, and spent 28 months in captivity, first, at a detention center in Luhansk, then, after unlawful trail—at a high security penal labor colony in Luhanschyna.
Russian state media carried a smear campaign, painting him as a far-right—a picture very much detached from reality. Maksym is a human rights activist who had been helping migrants in Ukraine.
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The reality of this invasion is that Russian military kidnap people, Russian cops keep them only God knows where, on no legal ground, obstructing any possible contact, slowly killing them. Viktoria’s death is as senseless as it could be, but far from being the only one of such kind.
October 10, father of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roschyna, received a pro forma death notice regarding his daughter. Roschyna was kidnapped in occupied part of Zaporizhzhia in Aug 2023. Russian officials had kept her relatives in the dark for 9 months, only this May Russian MoD confirmed she’s detained, without going into any details on her whereabouts. The cause of her death is so far unknown.
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Raising funds for young antifascist prisoners of Russia :antifa: :anarchoheart2: :boostRequest:
Parents of two Chita antifascists, Lyubov Lizunova and Sasha Snezhkov, are raising funds to pay legal expenses for the appeal against the recent court sentence. Sasha’s mum is a single parent, she had suffered two strokes and cannot afford to cover the legal expenses. Lyubov’s parents have also been struggling to cover the costs of legal counselling the past two years, Russian cells of ABC were helping them previously.
Total sum is €4,400: Sasha needs €2,000 for legal expenses, Lyubov — €1,200. Both of them also need €600 each to cover the parcel expenses for the next 4 months.
This April, Lyubov was sentenced to three and a half years of corrective penal colony, and Sasha’s—to six years of corrective penal colony.
In Oct 2022, the two were detained and charged with vandalism and “calls for terrorism and infringing territorial integrity” (the last one’s later changed to “calls for extremism”). Sasha has spent nearly all this time in a detention center. Lyubov, then a minor, remained on house arrest up until this April, then put into custody. You can learn more about their case and their lives before it in this short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzBS871_l8 (choose auto-translation of subs from Russian)
Ways to Donate:
PayPal
[email protected](add “for Chita” in a comment)#AnarchistPrisoners #PrisonersOfRussia #CallForSolidarity #j25antifa #Russia
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Solidarity Zone raises funds for prisoner aid, 200,000RUB needed
:boostRequest: :anarchoheart2:
Solidarity Zone is crowdfunding for the prisoners they support. The goal is to raise 200,000RUB / €2,000 to cover their expenses in September and October on humanitarian purposes—provision packages, prison canteen, books & periodicals, and communication services.
Solidarity Zone project supports militant antiwar prisoners of Russia, who oppose the ongoing Russian invasion and have been charged with or convicted for damaging enlisting offices, FSB facilities, or military and offence-relevant infrastructure.
Ways to donate
PayPal
[email protected]Monero
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Today is #MaksymButkevych’s birthday, his third one in Russian captivity.
An antifascist, anarchist and human rights organizer, he was captured as a combatant defending his country from military invasion. His whereabouts were unknown up until 10 month later when a court in occupied Luhansk sentenced him to 13 years on fabricated charges. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-maksym-butkevych-conviction-severodonetsk-luhansk/
Maksym is doing his time in a penitentiary—once a Ukrainian colony—in Krasnyi Luch, Luhanschina. He reads a lot and tries not to loose his French skills. I hope to see him out of prison as soon as possible—as well as all other captured Ukrainians, both combatants and non-combatans.
His story is widely known in Ukraine, but not so much in left or anarchist spaces outside the region. You can express support to him by including his story in the programme of your local event on the occasion of this year’s International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners in August. Also, comrades in Russian jurisdiction (like me) can send your kind words by letter.
Until all are free!
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An “extremist group” of eight antifascists detained in Moscow, Rostov-on-Don
Russian state-affiliated media shows footage of collaborative FSB & ICRF raids from this morning—storming residences fully geared-up, detainees’ blurred faces: police had charged a group of yet unnamed persons with “Organizing an Extremist Community” (chapter 282 of Russian Criminal code)
FSB incriminates them
a series of assaults on “regular strangers” with wearables colored as Russian Imperial flag, and branded clothes from Thor Steinar (!!!), Mother Russia
public display of Neonazi insignia in social media
recruiting minors in the said social media for the cause of the said extremist community.
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Support group of defendants in Tyumen case made it public today that Roman Paklin, a 26 year old antifascist and a grassroots librarian from Siberia is diagnosed with schizophrenia-like disorder. It can be caused by the tortures Roma had been subjected to during the first days of his captivity: his arm became numb, his eyesight seriously degraded, he also has problems with his heart. Last August, he had been transferred from a detention center (SIZO) to psychiatric hospital, since then he’s been medicated. Roma’s mom has been appointed as his legal guardian, and
his case has been recently severed from the group, and “paused”. Roma reports, he’s been treated well, he writes poetry and does yoga.The collective case against the other four antifascists from Siberia is going to the court soon. All the six reported torture, one of them, Kirill, agreed to become an FSB evidence against others, his severed case has also recently came to court.
Denise, Yura, and Danil face 15 to 30 years, and Nikita—as a purported leader of the group—a lifetime in prison.
Source: Tyumen case support group https://t.me/tumenskoedelo
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Can we make €450 in a day for imprisoned antifascists from Ural and Siberia?
The FireFund campaign in support of Tymen’ case defendents is closing tomorrow.
Six anarchists from Russia have been held in pre-trial detention for a year on spurious charges of creating a “terrorist community.” According to Russian law, our comrades face a total of 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for the charged articles, and 15 to 30 years of life imprisonment for organizing or leading a “terrorist community.” The main proof of guilt is a confession given under torture.
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In this campaign, we ask for your financial assistance to pay for the work of lawyers of five of the six detainees who continue to fight for their freedom and do not compromise with the punitive hand of the law.
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Sergei Yeremeyev, a Belarussian charged with blowing up trains on Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM) is in detention in Irkutsk
On December 9 Omsk central district court placed Sergei under arrest until Jan 20, 2024 on the counts of blowing up trains hauling petrochemicals in Severomuysky Tunnel November 29 and 30.
Flames took over a train with 41 tanks of fuel, 3 tanks of aviation fuel, and 6 cars of iron. Later, another cargo train was blown up moving along a bypass track. As a result, fuel spilled over an area of 150 square meters. Four fuel tanks have burned completely, two more were damaged. According to the FSB, Yeremeev “confessed to working with Ukrainian security services.” They classified explosions as an act of terrorism.
State-affiliated media say, Yeremeyev stated his intention to obstruct military cargo deliveries: “I have testified in writing about ammunition being transfered by BAM; the aim was to halt their movements.”
Belarusian media Zerkalo contacted Sergei’s acquaintance, who had identified him on video. November 2020, him and Sergei both took part in general strike at Naftan Oil Refinery, which he announced publicly and even sent the statement to Tikhanovsky’s campaign. “Sergei was always poised to resolve things peacefully. Maybe he was tired that nothing’s being resolved… <...> Even though his face was airbrushed on video, I recognized him immediately,” his acquaintance speaks of Yeremeyev.
BAZA reported about Yeremeyev being transported by convoy to Irkutsk. December 14, our letter found him in SIZO-1 of Irkutsk.
Support Sergei by writing him a letter!
✉️ His mailing address is
Russia, 664019, Irkutsk, Barricad 63, SIZO-1, Yeremeyev Sergei Victorovich(d.o.b. 1971)📧 You can send letters through the on-line service PrisonMail.online.
How to write a letter to a prisoner if you are not in Russia
Translated from source: Solidarity Zone
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The anarchist Ruslan Siddiqui is charged with railway sabotage and attacking a military airfield
At the end of November, the anarchist Ruslan Siddiqui was arrested on suspicion of organising the derailment of a goods train in Ryazan province. On 2 December, the Dorogomilovsky district court in Moscow sent Ruslan to pre-trial detention.
Acts of railway sabotage are now quite common in Russia. Partisans use these to block the delivery of military supplies to the armed forces operating on Ukrainian territory.
The derailment occurred on 11 November, 190 kilometres out from the Moscow terminal. Kommersant newspaper reported the details as follows: “Due to the detonation of improvised explosive devices (two bombs, each equivalent to 3kg of TNT, were placed 10 metres from each other on a bypass used by goods trains), a 300 metre stretch of track was damaged. A crater opened up, and the first 19 carriages of goods train no. 2018 fell into a ditch. The explosion broke the window of the train driver’s cabin, and the driver sustained non-serious injuries”.
The security services have also stated that Ruslan Siddiqui was involved in an attack on the military airport in Ryazan on July, 20. Four quadrocopters, loaded with explosives, were flown on to the Dyagilevo base.
Ruslan has now been charged with an “act of terrorism” (Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, parts 2.a and 2.v) and “possession of explosive materials” (Article 222.1, part 3.a). He is threatened with between 12 and 30 years’ imprisonment.
Ruslan’s comrades have contacted us. This is how they described him:
“As one mutual comrade said, ‘Ruslan is a person of action’. And that’s really it: Ruslan undertakes difficult tasks, without wasting words. He grasps the essence of any situation quickly and works out how to respond. As a friend he is always responsive, always ready to help. He loves adventure sports such as trekking and cycling marathons. He has travelled many times to the Chernobyl and Belarussian Exclusion Zones [established after the nuclear explosion in 1986, now uninhabited, richly forested areas]. Ruslan is a proponent of anarchist ideas, and the Russian military aggression against Ukraine distressed him greatly. All the more so because some of his friends and comrades died in that conflict, and people continue to die there. And now he himself has become a victim of state violence, and our support is important to him”.Ruslan is now in SIZO [pre-trial detention centre] no. 7 in Moscow. You can support him by writing a letter, and by circulating information about his case.
✉️ Address for letters:
Russia, 109382 Moscow, ul. Verkhnie Polya 57, SIZO-7,(d.o.b. 1988)
Siddiqui Ruslan Kasemovich📧 You can send letters through the on-line service PrisonMail.online.
How to write a letter to a prisoner if you are not in Russia
Source: Solidarity Zone
#PrisonersOfRussia #AnarchistPrisoners #CallForSolidarity #anarchism #sabotage
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How to write a letter to a prisoner if you are not in Russia? Guide for those who are not native Russian speakers
❓ Is it possible to write a letter in English?
The new rules of procedure in Russian prisons allow correspondence in any language, but, unfortunately, this does not work in practice. Most often, such letters are simply not allowed through, and if they are, many prisoners will not be able to read them. Even if on the outside a person spoke English, then in prison this skill is lost, because there is no practice.
You can ask your friends to translate your letter or use online translators. Automatic translations are not very good, but your support for the prisoner will be more important than the literacy of the letter itself.
To make it easier to translate the answer to your letter into English, ask the recipient to write it in block letters.
❓ What to write about in a letter?
In a cell where the only entertainment available is talking to fellow inmates, books, letters, and the occasional TV, it's interesting to read just about anything.
In the first letter, you should introduce yourself, tell about yourself and your hobbies, and in response ask about the interests of the prisoner, so it will be easier for you to find common topics for conversation. Tell about the latest news, your pets, places to walk and travel. You can also describe the country where you live and its cultural practices.
In prison, everything that is outside of it will be interesting.
❓ What exactly should not be written?
Do not discuss in correspondence the materials of the case and the facts related to them. This may harm your recipient, any additional information about the “crime” may add to the charge.
At present, everything is not clear with the discussion of the war in correspondence, in some institutions such letters are easily passed, in some they become a problem for prisoners, or the censor simply does not pass them on.
❓ How does censorship work?
General censorship rules for pre-trial detention centers and colonies do not exist at all. Not to miss the letter may be due to the internal rules of the institution or simply the mood of the censor. The only thing left to do here is to try. To increase your chances of getting censored, don't use swear words or strong language.
❓ How to send an email and get a response?
You can send a letter by regular mail if your country of residence has not restricted postal communication with Russia. It is worth putting paper and a spare envelope into the envelope. Also, the prisoner will need postage stamps to answer, but they can only be bought in Russia. Often they are passed on by relatives or friends.
The letter can also be sent online through the volunteer resource RosUznik. It's easier and free, and the answer will come to your email in a scanned form. RosUznik project exists only on donations, you can find more information on how to support the project on their website.
Support the prisoners in any way you can.
People shouldn't be in prisons, and prisons shouldn't exist.
Source: Solidarity Zone
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Fundraising for the defence of antifascist Yury Mikheev
Yury Mikheev, aged 18, was arrested together with Matvei Mel’nikov on November 10 on the territory of military section in the Moscow region. The FSB accused the young men of preparing arson on military equipment, including a 40V6 universal mobile mast, which is a component of the S-300 surface-to-air missile system.
Yury Mikheev was charged with preparing an act of sabotage, and was sent to a pre-trial detention centre. The young man is threatened with a custodial sentence of up to 10 years.
Yury Mikheev is an antifascist, who does not support Russian aggression against Ukraine. Yura became friends with Matvei Mel’nikov, who, like him, came out against the war. We still don’t know the full details of the case, but it seems very likely that this was a provocation by the special services, who corresponded with Mel’nikov, pretending to be partisans.
Yury’s friend says: “He’s just a great guy: he always supports and helps everyone. He’s the kind of person who will never let anyone down, whatever happens. He’s such a brilliant, interesting and friendly person. I sometimes don’t even know how all these qualities can be combined in one person. And I’m proud that he’s my friend”.
Now Yury needs help himself: legal defence from a reliable lawyer. Why it is important, we told here.
The group supporting Yury Mikheev are fundraising €4250. This is the amount that will be needed to pay for the lawyer’s work for six months.
✊ Support the fundraiser any way you can!
🪙 PayPal:
[email protected](please specify, "for Mikheev", if possible euros are the preferred currency)🥷 Cryptocurrencies (please inform us by email to [email protected] if you send cryptocurrency to support Yury)
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source: Solidarity Zone
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I’ve just found old birdsite account of Sasha Snezhkov, antifascist from Chita charged with “terrorism apologia“—and there’re those childhood photos of him, he’s the cutest motherfucker!!!
You can help his support team pay his laywer—his trial is about to begin.PayPal of ABC Moscow:
[email protected]
Crypto wallets of ABC Irkutsk
BTC:bc1qvq3gxfwv6r04anuuaefje8nvu48gxyvnk9yehq
ETH:0x385f7847121ef646745d49C54CA80f7eFbF095e0
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Снова письмо, на этот раз пишет #АлександрСнежков из читинского СИЗО-1: цензура не пускает самопальное издание книги Елены Гаповой «Классы наций. Феминистская критика нациостроительства» под предлогом, что это экстремистская литература. Ранее цензоры отказались передать «Соседей по полке» под предлогом, что в нём есть строки на украинском.
Снежку только исполнилось 20, он не теряет силы духа несмотря на стеснение заключения и прихоти и заскоки администрации.Пишите письма заключенным!
#AnarchistPrisoners #PrisonersOfRussia