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Anarchist and former political prisoner Alexander Frantskevich was deported from #Ukraine to #Belarus

Anarchist and former political prisoner Alexander Frantskevich was deported from Ukraine to Belarus (https://belsat.eu/en/news/eks-politzaklyuchennogo-frantskevicha-deportirovali-iz-ukrainy-v-belarus/).  On 18 June in the evening he went to the migration service to apply for an extended permit and at 04.40 pm he didn’t answer anymore. Already at three oclock in the morning he was deported to Belarus.

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Armed political police attack an informal anarchist get-together in #Belarus

Belarus: Several people were charged with illegal usage of forest resources and distribution of extremist materials after political police with support of task forces attacked an informal anarchist encounter. Around 20 participants were at the camping site at that point.

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#Belarus: a state crackdown on anarchist Internet resources

Belarusian state continues an attack on anarchist web-resources. Recently it blocked several social media accounts of anarchist collective “Pramen” and its mirror on wordpress.org.

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#Belarus: “I can shoot you in a kneecap” – how Belarusian cops intimidate youth for alleged contacting with anarchists

We already wrote about a case of a “The network”, in which Russian secret service FSB is fabricating the case about “terrorist anarchists”, knocking out false evidence from the accused by beatings and tortures.

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#Belarus: Solidarity With Those Facing Repression

A couple of years ago, under its despotic leader Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus introduced the idea of a ‘social parasite’ tax, where an unemployed person has to pay an annual fee for not-working, or risk detention or other sanctions. The Presidential Decree #3 (2015) “decree against social parasites” imposed this unemployment tax on people who work (according to official record) fewer than 183 days a year and so do not take part in the “financing of the state”. The tax is the equivalent of US$250. 

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#Belarus: An Interview With Anarchist Mikola Dedok

In Belarus, anarchists have made a name for themselves during the recent wave of protests which have rocked the country. We speak to Mikola Dedok, an anarchist activist, on apathy, politicisation and the failures of opposition politics.
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Image from 2012: graffiti in support of Dedok. Source: Facebook.

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Berlin: Rally in Solidarity With Imprisoned Anarchists in Belarus

On the 28th of March around 15 people came out to the embassy of Belarus in Berlin for the solidarity action to the belarussian anarchists and all the other people who suffered from the belarussian state violence.

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