Imprisoned

Alex Stokes Contompasis

Alex Stokes Contompasis is a journalist and artist from Albany, NY. Alex’s work documenting social unrest began in 2014. He was arrested in 2017 in Washington DC during the J20 inaugural protests and co-represented over 200 counter-protestors and independent journalists that were rounded up and falsely charged. He was in Charlottesville, VA during the summer protests in 2017. He routinely attended and recorded Black Lives Matter protests in Albany in 2020. He also regularly revealed local white supremacist groups and members.

Yasin Malik

Yasin is a Kashmiri revolutionary and chairman of the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) arrested in April of 2019. The JKLF advocated for a fully independent Kashmir and gave Kashmiris a secular alternative to the clericalist and pro-Pakistan political camps. The group gave up armed rebellion in the disputed region in 1994. Yasin pled guilty to all charges, stating to the Judge “If seeking Azadi (freedom) is a crime, then I am ready to accept this crime and its consequences.”

Aleksander Zaitsev

Aleksander is an anarchist accused of attempting to set fire to Chairman of the Supreme Court Sukalo’s dacha (Article 289.2 Attempted act of terrorism by a group of persons). He was detained near Valentin Sukalo’s dacha on August 22nd 2021. According to our information, he went to the site together with provocateur Akulich Dmitry Aleksandrovich, whom he had met while he was in administrative detention. We do not know Akulich’s status in this case, but he is most likely a witness with a false name of Sergeenko.

Anna Pyshnik

Anna Pyshnik (Chimpoyesh) was detained on 22 March 2022 in Mozyr and shares anti-fascist views. According to the prosecution, she “shot a video of helicopters and sent it to a destructive media resource” – Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code (assistance to an extremist formation). She was sentenced to 3 years in prison.

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Artem S. Solovey

Artem is an anarchist from Belarus who was detained on 4 August 2021 and arrested on charges of organisation of actions that disrupted public order during post-election protests in Belarus (Article 342.1) and participation in an extremist organisation (Article 361-1.1).

Оn 22 April 2022, he was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison.

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Artem D. Solovey

Artem is an anarchist from Minsk. On August 4, 2021, he was arrested for 15 days for allegedly resisting arrest by the cops. After that he was not released, the criminal case was opened under the Article 342.1 (gross violation of public order) for participation in protests and the Article 361-1.1 (participation in an extremist organization). Earlier Artem had been detained several times at marches and preventively before Freedom Day.

On 22 April 2022 sentenced to 5 years in prison.

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Evgeny Rubashko

Evgeny is an anarchist from Belarus who was detained on 29 July 2021 and arrested on charges of organisation of actions that disrupted public order during post-election protests in Belarus. The criminal case was opened under the Article 342.1 (gross violation of public order) for participation in protests and the Article 361-1.1 (participation in an extremist organization). He reported torture (plastic bag on the head, beatings, etc.).

On 22 April 2022, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

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Aleksandr Belov

Aleksandr is аn anarchist from Belarus who was detained on 29 July 2021 and arrested on charges of organisation of actions that disrupted public order during post-election protests in Belarus. The criminal case was opened under the Article 342.1 (gross violation of public order) for participation in protests and the Article 361-1.1 (participation in an extremist organization)

On 22 April 2022, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

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Dmitry Dubovski

Dmitry is an anarchist from Soligorsk. Arrested on the night of 28-29 October 2020 close to Ukrainian border by Belarusian border guards together with Sergey Romanov, Dmitry Rezanovich and Igor Olinevich. Charged with terrorism and illegal possession of firearms. According to prosecutors office he and his comrades organized several arson attacks in Soligorsk and Mozyr against state institutions. Dmitry was on the run for 10 years persecuted for direct actions of 2009-2010.

On 22 December 2021 sentenced to 18 years in prison.

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