Minsk anarchists hanged banner “Freedom to political prisoners”

On May 25 overnight Minsk anarchists held an action in support of political prisoners.

In the center of the city, on the bridge near Masherau Avenue, activists of Anarchist movement lit flares and displayed a banner “Freedom to political prisoners”, revbel.org website informs.

“It’s not enough for the system to throw behind the bars the people, who are courageous enough to resist it. It does not stop – it is trying to destroy the person by tortures. Plus one year in prison for wearing a sports suit, an informational blockade (prisoners do not always receive letters and newspapers), endless punishments in the isolation cell – this is just a part of the total lawlessness happening in our days.

The society that does not fight for freedom is doomed to extinction. The best solidarity with political prisoners is resistance to the authorities,” participants of the protest state.

We remind that on May 27, 2011 an activist of anarchist movement Mikalai Dzyadok was sentenced by the court of Zavadski district of Minsk under Article 339 Part 2 of the Criminal Code (malicious hooliganism) to 4.5 years of imprisonment in the conditions of a reinforced regime. He pleaded not guilty and refused to sign a petition for pardon.

In November 2014 a new criminal case was opened against him for “violation of the regime of serving the sentence”. On February 26, 5 days before the term was to expire, the court of Leninski district of Mahilyou sentenced Mikalai Dzyadok to 1 years of imprisonment in the colony under Article 411 of the Criminal Code.

On May 20, while he was in the isolation punishment cell in Horki, Mikalai Dzyadok cut his stomach and arms, in order to attract attention of senior prison officers to inhuman conditions in the punishment cell.

On May 27, 2011 Mikalai Dzyadok and Ihar Alinevich and Alyaksandr Frantskevich were sentenced to 3 years’ term by the court of Zavadski district of Minsk. They were charged under Article 339 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (malicious hooliganism) and Article 218 Parts 2 and 3 (willful destruction or injuring of property). They were incriminated a number of buildings’ attacks and arsons, particularly the organization of unauthorized antimilitary action next to the Ministry of Defense in 2009, throwing Molotov cocktails at the Russian Embassy and the building of the detention centre in Akhrestsina Str. in Minsk in 2010.