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Belarus
Aleksandr Belov
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 and participation in an extremist organization. On 22 April 2022 sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Aleksandr Andreevich Belov
IK-22, Brestski rajon, Ivatsevichy,
225295, stantsiya Domanovo, a/ya 20
Belarus
*See the end of the list for guidelines on post to Belarusian prisoners.
Aleksandr Zaitzev
Alexander Zaitsev was detained after attempting to set fire to Chairman of the Supreme Court’s summerhouse (Attempted act of terrorism by a group of persons) on 22 August 2021. According to our information his accomplice was a provocateur Akulich Dmitry, whom Zaitzev had met while serving an administrative arrest. On 15 April 2022 Aleksander was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Zaitzev
IK-15, 212013, Mogilev,
p/o Veino, Slavgorod shosse 183
Belarus
*See the end of the list for guidelines on post to Belarusian prisoners.
Artem Dmitrievich Solovey
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 and participation in an extremist organization. On 22 April 2022 sentenced to 5 years in prison.
IK-17, Shklov, 213004,
ul. 1-ya Zavodskaya, 8
Belarus
*See the end of the list for guidelines on post to Belarusian prisoners.
Artem Sergeevich Solovey
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 and participation in an extremist organization. On 22 April 2022 sentenced to 4.5 years in prison.
IK-15, Slavgorodskoe shosse 183,
Veino, Mogilev, 213105
Belarus
*See the end of the list for guidelines on post to Belarusian prisoners.
Evgeny Rubashko
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 and participation in an extremist organization. On 22 April 2022 sentenced to 5 years in prison. He reported tortures (plastic bag on the head, beatings, etc.).
Evgeny Aleksandrovich Rubashko
IK-2, ul. Sikorskogo 1
213800, Bobruisk
Belarus
*See the end of the list for guidelines on post to Belarusian prisoners.
Mikalai Dziadok
Anarchist and blogger Mikalai Dziadok was detained late in the evening of November 11, 2020. After his arrest Dziadok was tortured for several hours and forced to give passwords to the encrypted equipment. The investigation believes that Dziadok repeatedly called for illegal actions on his Internet pages, including participation in protests and resistance to the cops. Dziadok himself was forced to go underground even before the revolution because of the threat of political persecution. Mikola was sentenced to 5 years in prison and over time transferred to a high-security
prison.
Dedok Nikolay Aleksandrovich
Turma-1, ul. Kirova 1, Grodno, 230023
Belarus
*See the end of the list for guidelines on post to Belarusian prisoners.
Nikita Yemelyanov
Anarchist from Belarus, sentenced to 4 years for setting fire to Minsk pretrial detention centre and attacking a court with paint bulbs in solidarity with another anarchist, who was kept there under arrest at that time. On 11 March 2022, Mikita was sentenced to 2 more years in prison for gross violation of prison rules.
Yemelyanov Nikita Vladimirovich
IK-11, ul. Rokossovskogo 118, Volkovyssk,
Volkovysski r-n, Grodnenskaya obl., 231900
Belarus
*See the end of the list for guidelines on post to Belarusian prisoners.
The case of anarchist criminal organisation (Belarus)
Akihiro Khanada-Gaevsky and Alexander Frantskevich were detained on August 12, 2020 and charged with participating in mass riots. Maria Rabkova and Andrei Chepiuk were detained later and over time accused of creating and participating an anarchist criminal organisation. In March 2021, seven more people were detained in Brest and accused of being a chapter of this organisation. In June 2021, several people were also detained as suspects in this case in Grodno, but were released after 10 days. Maria Rabkova doesn’t want to be associated with anarchism.
Khanada-Gaevsky Akikhiro Svyatoslavovich
Chepiuk Andrey Sergeyevich
Frantskevich Aleksandr Vladimirovich
Kozlyanko Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
Marach Andrey Igorevich
Golovko Aleksey Igorevich
Dranets Nikita Vadimovich
Shpetny Pavel Aleksandrovich
ul. Volodarskogo, 2, SIZO-1
220030 Minsk
Belarus
*See the end of the list for guidelines on post to Belarusian prisoners.
The case of the Belarusian anarcho-partisans
Sergey Romanov, Dmitry Rezanovich, Dmitry Dubovski and Igor Olinevich were arrested on the night of 28-29 October 2020 close to Ukrainian border by Belarusian border guards. Charged with terrorism and illegal possession of firearms. According to prosecutors office, they organized several arson attacks in Soligorsk and Mozyr against state institutions. On 22 December 2022 they were sentenced to 18-20 years in prison.
Romanov Sergey Aleksandrovich
IK-11, Volkovysky rayon, Grodnenskaya oblast,
231900, Volkovysk, ulica Rokossovsky, 118
Belarus
Olinevich Igor Vladimirovich
IK-20, Gomelskaya oblast, Mozyrski rayon,
247755, Mikhalkovsky s/s, 70
Belarus
Rezanovich Dmitry Grigorevich
IK-22, Brestkaya oblast, Ivacevichy,
225295, stanciya Domanovo, a/ya 20
Belarus
Dubovski Dmitry Nikolaevich
IK-3, Vitebskaya oblast, Vitebskiy rayon,
Vitba, 211300
Belarus
*See the end of the list for guidelines on post to Belarusian prisoners.
Chile
Francisco Solar Domínguez
In the early hours of Friday, 24 July 2020, a number of searches took place in Santiago, Chile, and two anarchists, Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero, were arrested, accused of several actions with explosive devices between 2019 and 2020. Specifically, both are accused of the double explosive attack that took place inside the Tánica building, a former Transoceánica real estate agency, in the wealthy municipality of Vitacura, on 27 February 2020, an action claimed by the Afinidades Armadas en Revuelta (Armed Affinities in Revolt). While only Francisco is accused of the shipment of two parcel bombs: the first against the 54th police station of Huchuraba, in the northern area of Santiago, which on 25 July 2019 caused the injury of eight policemen; the second to the offices of Quiñenco, against the former Minister of the Interior Rodrigo Hinzpeter, in the municipality of Las Condes, which arrived on the same date but was defused.
Previously, Mónica and Francisco were arrested on 14 August 2010, in Chile, in the context of the repressive anti-anarchist operation called ‘Caso Bombas’. In previous years, at least a hundred arson and explosive attacks had targeted power structures. On 1 June 2012, all the defendants were acquitted. They were subsequently arrested on 13 November 2013 in Spain and charged with carrying out the explosive attack against the Basilica del Pilar in Zaragoza (2 October 2013). At the end of a lengthy trial they were finally sentenced to 4 years and 6 months. On 7 March 2017, they were released from prison and deported from Spain to Chile.
Francisco Solar Domínguez
Complejo Penitenciario Rancagua – Módulo 2
Calle La Gonzálina s/n
Rancagua, Región O’Higgins — Chile
Joaquín Garcia Chanks
Joaquín has been convicted for bombing a prison guard training facility in San Bernardo, Chile, along with his comrade Kevin Garrido. They both were arrested the day of the bombing, November 19, 2015, and were held in prison until September 2018, when the court sentenced Kevin to 17 years, and Joaquín to 13. On November 2nd, 2018, Kevin was murdered in prison by another prisoner.
In 2016, while awaiting sentence, Joaquín attacked the former boss the intelligence police during the Pinochet dictatorship inside the prison they both were held in.
Complejo Penitenciario Rancagua – Módulo 1
Calle La Gonzálina s/n
Rancagua, Región O’Higgins — Chile
Juan Aliste Vega
Marcelo Villarroel, Freddy Fuentevilla and Juan Aliste Vega were arrested in 2009 after a long international manhunt, accused of the robbery of a Santander Bank and the murder of a cop in October 2007. On July 2, 2014, the 3 comrades were sentenced in their absence, having refused to assist in the judicial show, and gave their disposition by video link. Juan was sentenced to 18 years for the homicide of Moyano + 10 years for attempted homicide on the cop Abarca + 14 years for the assault on Santander Bank in Valparaiso and Banco Security for a total of 42 years.
Complejo Penitenciario Rancagua – Módulo 1
Calle La Gonzálina s/n
Rancagua, Región O’Higgins — Chile
Juan Flores Riquelme
Juan Flores is serving a sentence of 23 years, having been convicted by the Chilean state for incendiary attacks in 2014 claimed by the Conspiracy Cells of Fire & International Conspiracy of Revenge. On July 23, 2014 a CCF cell bombed “The Dominicans” station of the Santiago Metro, and on September 8, 2014 a shopping mall in Las Condes. In both instances, measures were taken to ensure the bombs would not hurt anyone, but in the former a bag containing the bomb was moved by a Metro employee, and in the latter the police ignored a warning call the CCF cell made 10 minutes before the bomb was set to go off. As a result, the attacks ended up injuring people, so the Chilean state was able to claim they were meant to terrorize the population, and used an antiterrorism law to obtain maximum sentencing on March 15, 2018 after proclaiming Juan guilty of both attacks. Two other comrades, Nataly Casanova and Enrique Guzman, were initially charged alongside Juan, but after over three years of imprisonment and criminal proceedings were found not guilty on all counts.
Complejo Penitenciario Rancagua – Módulo 1
Calle La Gonzálina s/n
Rancagua, Región O’Higgins — Chile
Kuyi
This comrade, a minor, was arrested on 25 May in the midst of clashes outside the Liceo de Aplicaciones commemorating the death of anarchist Mauricio Morales. Kuyi was arrested by the police in the midst of the arson attack and the burning of a Transantiago bus.
C.I.P-C.R.C SAN BERNARDO
San Francisco 16361,
San Bernardo, Región Metropolitana, Chile
Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda
Marcelo was a MAPU Lautaro member and political prisoner in the 1990s. Later, he was charged with taking part in the September 2007 Banco Santander robbery in Valparaíso and the October 2007 Banco Security robbery in Santiago during which repressive agent Luis Moyano died in a shootout while they were making their escape. After a period as a fugitive, Villarroel was arrested on March 15, 2008 together with Freddy Fuentevilla in Neuquen, Argentina. They were then deported to Chile on December 15, 2009. Freddy and Juan Aliste Vega were charged with the same, and were imprisoned for years awaiting trial and had it regularly postponed. On July 2, 2014, the 3 comrades were sentenced in their absence, having refused to assist in the judicial show, and gave their disposition by video link. Marcelo was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the assault on Santander Bank in Valparaiso and Banco Security.
Complejo Penitenciario Rancagua – Módulo 1
Calle La Gonzálina s/n
Rancagua, Región O’Higgins — Chile
Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda
In the early hours of Friday, 24 July 2020, a number of searches took place in Santiago, Chile, and two anarchists, Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero, were arrested, accused of several actions with explosive devices between 2019 and 2020. Specifically, both are accused of the double explosive attack that took place inside the Tánica building, a former Transoceánica real estate agency, in the wealthy municipality of Vitacura, on 27 February 2020, an action claimed by the Afinidades Armadas en Revuelta (Armed Affinities in Revolt).
Previously, Mónica and Francisco were arrested on 14 August 2010, in Chile, in the context of the repressive anti-anarchist operation called ‘Caso Bombas’. In previous years, at least a hundred arson and explosive attacks had targeted power structures. On 1 June 2012, all the defendants were acquitted. They were subsequently arrested on 13 November 2013 in Spain and charged with carrying out the explosive attack against the Basilica del Pilar in Zaragoza (2 October 2013). At the end of a lengthy trial they were finally sentenced to 4 years and 6 months. On 7 March 2017, they were released from prison and deported from Spain to Chile.
Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda
Centro de prisión preventiva de mujeres de San Miguel
San Francisco 4756, San Miguel
Región Metrópolitana — Chile
France
Claudio Lavazza
Claudio Lavazza has spent his entire life in the underground anarchist struggle, taking part in armed attacks, expropriations, liberations of other combatants and in diffusing anarchist propaganda in many ways in Italy and elsewhere. He was arrested in 1996, in a bank robbery in Cordoba (Spain), during which two cops were shot dead. The comrade has a whole of 118 years prison sentence 11 years for an armed occupation of the Italian consultant’s office in Malaga, in order to send a message of solidarity to the anarchists prosecuted for the “Marini” case in Italy, 77 years from Italian courts and 30 years from a court in France. At the moment, he is trying to get released upon 25 years spent in prison through a cumulation of sentence.
Claudio Lavazza n. d’écrou : 11818
Centre Pénitentiaire de Mont-de-Marsan
Chemin de Pémégnan
BP 90629
40000 – Mont-de-Marsan
France
Ivan Alocco
Ivan was arrested on June 11, 2022 in Paris and is accused of setting six vehicle of fire in Paris and Montreuil between January and June, often in solidarity with prisoners. The cops followed him for months, listened to his phone calls, installed a camera in the entrance of the building where he lived, intercepted his mail (especially the letters of anarchists/hes imprisoned) and looked at his bank account. The case will probably get connected with old counts of car arsons on 2017-2021.
Ivan Alocco
n. d’écrou 46355
M. A. de Villepinte
93420 Seine-Saint-Denis
France
Vincenzo Vecchi
Vinchenzo was arrested on August 8, 2019 in France, after being at large. In July 2012 he was sentenced by the Italian Supreme Court to 11 years and 6 months in prison for the clashes during G8 protests in 2001.
Centre pénitentiaire de Rennes-Vezin
Rue du Petit Pré
35132 Vezin-le-Coquet
France
Germany
Rainer Loehnert
Rainer Loehnert is 55 years old and has been locked up for more than 31 years in various prisons and mental houses, of which he has long been in isolation and on “secured stations”. He is currently held in the forensic psychiatry in Bedburg Hau (North Rhine-Westphalia). Rainer was admitted to a closed psychiatry by means of a “determined incapacity and negative danger prognosis according to section 63 of the Criminal Code” due to a personal injury that he suffered 32 years ago. This resulted in an unofficial, seemingly endless “preventive detention” and long-term overdose of psychotropic drugs. During his entire detention, Rainer’s anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian attitudes, actions and acts of resistance were repeatedly pathologized as “morbid” and “delusional”. He opposed his unbroken will to defend himself against this prison System to the humiliation and terror of nurses, doctors, therapists, assessors, judges, etc. and other prisoners (neo-Nazis). The fights have cost him a lot of strength and nerves. In the three decades Rainer went on hunger strikes, attempted several escape attempts, and resisted various police units as well as provocations of the staff and fellow neo-Nazi prisoners. He participated in the hunger strike in solidarity with the struggling Prisoners in Greece in July 2014, and has repeatedly denied medication and urine checks, what is often punished with solitary confinement or fixation, forced medication. Rainer writes and reads very much, and expressing solidarity with various struggling (ex)prisoners, such as Marco Camenisch and Gabriel Pombo da Silva. He keeps or seeks contact, among others, with some anti-prison projects and individuals and informs himself about current (anti-domination) fights. He tries get in touch with (fighting) people from inside and outside of prison around the world. Rainer speculates about current (anarchist) struggles, especially in Europe, as well as anarchist newspaper projects, but also “classics” of anarchist theories and practices.
Rainer Loehnert
Südlicher Rundweg 20a
Haus F1, Station 1
47551 Bedburg Hau
Deutschland
Thomas Meyer-Falk
Red anarchist skinhead Thomas Meyer-Falk still refuses to collaborate with any psychiatric reviewers. The comrade was arrested for a bank robbery, and has been incarcerated since 1996. Not only was he not released but, on top of that, he was recently transferred to another prison. From 1998 he was in Bruchsal; since early July 2013 he has been held “preventively for security reasons” in the notorious hellhole of Freiburg.
c/o jva freiburg
Hermann-Herder-Str. 8
d 79104 Freiburg
Germany
Greece
Christos Rodopoulos
Most of the CCF prisoners are currently involved in a series of new trials dealing with the 250 bombings and arsons between 2008 and 2011 alleged against the organisation (including attacks on the Golden Dawn’s offices, the Athens Administrative Court, and Koridallos prisons), as well as the sending of a series of 14 parcel bombs. All are also under investigation concerning the ‘Phoenix’ project and the ‘Operation Ardire’ case. On July 8, 2016, the Koridallos prison court – presided over by special judge Asimina Yfanti – convicted all members of the anarchist revolutionary organisation Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (CCF). Christos Rodopoulos was sentenced to 75 years in prison.
Sofronistiko Katastima Domokou
TK 35010
Domokos
Fthiotida
Greece
Dayvid Ceccarelli
On 29 June 2022, in Athens, Dayvid was arrested. He was sentenced to 6 years for the clashes of October 15, 2011 in Rome by the Supreme Court on May 25th.
Dayvid Ceccarelli
by Dikastiki Filaki Koridallou
A’PTERYGA (A’wing)
T.K. 18110
Korydallos
The Athens
Greece
Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis
On 9 August 2021, fugitive comrade Dimitris Hatzivasiliadis was captured in Thessaloniki, where he attempted the expropriation of a bank. The capture was not connected with the prior search for the anarchist by the special counter-guerrilla mechanisms. Since October 2019, after his injury during the expropriation of a local state casino store in Cholargos (Athens), Dimitris went into a state of flight from the grid of preventive and penal repressive control.
Dikastiki Filaki Domokou
D’WING (Δ’ΠΤΕΡΥΓΑ)
T.K. 35010
Domokos
fthiotidas
Greece
Fotis Daskalas
Fotis Daskalas is arrested for an attack on Piraeus traffic police with Molotov cocktails carried out on 14/11/2021, he is charged with attempted murder, arson, arson by association, explosion construction and possession of incendiary materials and explosives.
Korydallos Prison
T.K. 18122
Korydallos
Athens
Greece
Fotis Tziotzis
Fotis was detained on 12 May 2015 and accused of armed robbery and attempted homicide of DIAS cops. A month after the arrests a snitch, also accused of the robbery, gave the comrade’s name and signed everything the cops told him to. The last pieces of the puzzle were filled in by well-wishing citizens and cops, who with their testimonies contributed once more to a vengeful arrest of a comrade.
Dikastiki Fylaki Larissas
TK 41110
Larissa
Greece
Giannis Michailidis
On January 29, 2020, anarchists Giannis Michailidis, Konstantina Athanasopoulou and Dimitra Valavani were arrested in Agia Paraskevi following their pursuit by the anti-terrorist unit. G. Michailidis was sought by the police authorities because of his escape from Tyrintha prison in June 2019 and K. Athanassopoulou for escaping before the announcement of a court order (he was arrested in January 2019, along with the fugitive then Pola Roupa, a member of the urban guerrilla anarchist Revolutionary Struggle, and claimed herself as a member of the organization. After being released on bail, she decided to flee and being in hiding in 2019 was sentenced in absentia to 35 years and 6 months of prison), and D. Valavani was beaten by cop agents. Giannis Michailidis was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Malandrinou prisons (Κ.Κ. Μαλανδρίνου)
T.K. 33053
Malandrino
Fokidas
Greece
Giorgos Petrakakos
In his own words:
“On September 24th and about 9 years after I had to violate my probation, I was arrested outside my house in Volos together with my wife Maria Theofilou right before the eyes of our two infant children. It is true that I have participated in some bank robberies, however I have not participated in all the ones I am accused of, or I will be accused of. The robberies I participated in were always well organized and demanded many months of planning therefore even if I wanted to, I could not be involved in so many.” On February 15, 2016 began the second trial concerning robberies accused of since 2002. The sentence from this case of up to 25 years will run consecutively with the previous sentence of 36 years.
Dikastiki Fylaki Korydallou – Eidiki Pteryga
TK 18110
Korydallos
Athens
Greece
Haris Mantzouridis
On 13 October 2021, Haris was arrested outside his house, where he lives with his partner and their child, the only evidence being the DNA mixture found in a gun magazine after a robbery that took place in 2018 in the area of Zografou in Athens. His mental health shaken in detention.
Korydallos Prison
T.K. 18122
Korydallos
Athens
Greece
Iásonas Rodópoulos
Iasonas is arrested for an attack on Piraeus traffic police with Molotov cocktails carried out on 14/11/2021, he is charged with attempted murder, arson, arson by association, explosion, construction and possession of incendiary materials and explosives.
Idikó Katástima Krátisis
Néon Avlóna,
19011 Avlónas
Greece
Konstantinos Giagtzoglou
Anarchist comrade Konstantinos Giagtzoglou was arrested on October 28th 2017, while exiting a hideout rented by him under a false identity and while transferring guns and explosive materials. Ntinos is accused of being a member of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and for sending parcel bombs to various E.U. officials including the former prime minister of Greece, Loukas Papadimos. The cops’ accusations are based on a mixed DNA sample and on the fact that Ntinos was visiting a former anarchist prisoner in Korydallos prison in early 2013. The comrade stated that both renting the flat and transferring the equipment were part of “revolutionary solidarity” and denies all other charges. Dinos was sentenced to a total of 11 years and 2 months’ prison without parole.
Dikastiki Fylaki Korydallou
Ediki Pteryga
T.K. 18110
Korydallos, Athens
Greece
Kostas Sakkas
Arrested on December 4, 2010 in Nea Smirni case (possession of weapons and explosives). In January 2014 released on bail and went on the run. In December 2014 was sentenced in absentia to 16 years. Was rearrested with Marios Seisidis in August 2016 and sentenced to 2 years and 9 months for using forged documents and car registration plates, car theft and disobedience to authorities. On June 12, 2019, Sakkas was arrested in Thessaloniki with Giannis Dimitrakis and Dimitra Syrianou, during expropriating a guarded money transport that was about to refill an ATM at the university hospital AHEPA. Kostas Sakkas was sentenced to 7 years and 10 months.
Dikastiki Fylaki Korydallou – A’Pteryga,
TK 18110
Korydallos
Athens
Greece
Nikos Maziotis
Nikos was sentenced to a 137 years in total, of which the new CP stipulates that in 20 years are suspended. Nikos was on the run for two years, was seriously wounded and arrested on July 16, 2014, after a shoot-out with cops in Monastiraki.
Dikastiki Filaki Domokou
D’WING (Δ’ΠΤΕΡΥΓΑ)
T.K. 35010
Domokos
fthiotidas
Greece
Panagiota (Pola) Roupa
On April 10, 2010, Gournas, Maziotis and Roupa were arrested on the charges of membership in the armed organisation Revolutionary Struggle. After Roupa and Maziotis were released on bail in October 2011, they went on the run. In April 2013 Pola Roupa was sentenced to 50.5 years of jail while hiding. In 2014 Nikos Maziotis was seriously wounded in the skirmish with police and arrested. In February 2016 Pola Roupa tried to set him free using a helicopter, but the attempt failed. In January 2017 Pola was arrested in a secret flat where she was hiding with her 6-year old child and another woman. In July 2018 Pola received life sentence plus 25 years in court. In 2021, the sentence was commuted to 6 years.
Eleonas Women’s Prison (Gynaikeies Fylakes)
Thebes
T.K. 32200
Greece
Spyros Christodoulou
On May 29th 2015, during an anti-terrorist operation of the Greek police in the area of Nea Anchialos in Magnesia (in close distance to the city of Volos), Spyros Dravilas fell dead inside a safe house under unverified circumstances. The police operation against dubbed ‘Distomo robbers’ resulted not only in the death of Spyros Dravilas (an illegalist and ex-prisoner in struggle), but also in the arrest of Grigoris Tsironis (an anarchist comrade, very active over the past two decades, who was on the run since 2006) and Spyros Christodoulou (an illegalist and unruly ex-prisoner).
Dikastiki filaki Larissas
TK 4111O
larissa
Greece
Vaggelis Stathopoulos
Vangelis Stathopoulos is an anarchist and martial arts instructor who was sentenced to 19 years in April, 2021 for allegedly taking part in armed robbery of a Greek casino. The robbery was claimed shortly after it happened in October 2019 by anarchist Dimitris Hatzivasileiadis, who was in hiding until detention in August 2021. Dimitris claims that he and one other person took part in the robbery, but that person was not Vangelis. Dimitris has been sentenced in absentia to 16 years in prison.
Vaggelis Stathopoulos
Dikastiki filaki Larissas
T.K. 413 34
Larissa
Greece
Anarchist Action Organization case
On 8 February 2022, comrades Thanos Xatziagkelou and Georgia Voulgari were arrested on the occasion of an arson attack at the Foundation for National and Religious Reflection and in the afternoon of the same day, comrade Panos Kalaitzis was arrested with a unique connection between his friendly and comradely relations with the former. In the following days the charges were upgraded to formation and membership of the Anarchist Action Organization.
Thanos Xatziagkelou
Dikastiki Filaki Koridallou,
D’wing (ΔΕΛΤΑ ΠΤΕΡΥΓΑ)
T.K. 18110
Korydallos
Athens
Greece
Georgia Voulgari
Korydallos women prison ( Γυναικιες φυλακες )
Solomou 3-5, Korydallos,
18122,
Athens
Greece
Panagiotis Kalaitzis
Korydallos Prison
D’wing (ΔΕΛΤΑ ΠΤΕΡΥΓΑ)
T.K. 18110
Korydallos
Athens
Greece
Italy
Alfredo Cospito
Alfredo Cospito and Nicola Gai were arrested on September 14th, 2012 and accused of shooting Ansaldo Nucleare manager and Finmeccanica affiliate, Roberto Adinolfi, in the knees – an action carried out by Olga nucleus FAI/FRI in May 2012. In May 2015, their sentences were reduced, Alfredo’s to 9 years and 5 months in prison, Nicola’s to 8 years and 8 months.
In September 2016, they were declared suspects in a new case of participation in an underground organization with terrorist intentions (Informal Federation of Anarchists). In April 2019, Alfredo was sentenced to 20 years, held responsible for the possession and transport of explosives in relation to the bomb in Parco Ducale near the Parma RIS (“scientific investigation department” of Carabinieri) of 24 October 2005 (acquitted of the crime of attack because “crime impossible” because the switch of the bomb was off), of the explosive envelope sent to the then mayor of Bologna Cofferati in 2 November 2005 (convicted of the bombing plus “possession and transportation of explosives”), of attacks with multiple explosive devices at the Carabinieri school of Fossano on June 2, 2006, and in the Crocetta district in Turin in 7 March 2007 (crime of “massacre aggravated by the fact that the goal would have been the police” and acquitted of the aggravating circumstance of political motivation), of sending explosive parcels to the then mayor of Turin (Chiamparino), to the editor of the newspaper “Torino Cronaca” (Giuseppe Fossati) and to COEMA Edilità (company involved in the restructuring of the CIE, “identification and expulsion center” for migrants) in July 2006. He is also indicated as promoter of the FAI (Federazione Anarchica Informale), recognized as a “subversive association with terrorism purposes”. The aggravating circumstance of trans-nationality has fallen.
C. C. di Terni
strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni
Italia – Italy
Andreas Krebs
Andreas is a former rebel long-term prisoner and anarchist, who was 16 years behind bars until October 2014. Now he is back in the clutches of justice. In autumn 2014, after his release, he met his current wife Jutta. Both decided to spend a quiet retirement in the south of Italy. At the end of December 2016 there was a dispute with his former employer, who attacked Andreas and strangled him. Andreas stabbed him in self-defence with a penknife. Sadly, the victim died in the hospital three days later under mysterious circumstances, although it was said shortly after the act that he would survive. In April 2019 he was sentenced in Italy to 24 years for intended murder. In addition, Andreas has recently been diagnosed with kidney cancer.
Sez. 4 Stz. 5
Sez. Mediterraneo (CASA CIRCONDARIALE SECONDIGLIANO)
Via Roma Verso Scampia, 250,
Cap 80144 Napoli (NA)
Italy
Anna Beniamino
Anna was detained in 2019 and sentenced to 16.5 year of prison within the Scropta Manent operation that tried to attribute to a single direction a series of direct actions claimed by the Informal Anarchist Organization.
In particular, the attacks inserted in this investigation include the parcel-bombs sent to the CPT’s [detention centres for immigrants] director in Modena in May 2005, to the traffic-cops barracks in Torino-San Salvario and to the chief-police of Lecce (claimed by FAI/Narodnaja Volja), the explosive device against the RIS barracks [carabinieri forensics] in Parma (October 24, 2005, claimed by FAI/Cooperativa Artigiana Fuoco e Affini-occasionalmente spettacolare), the parcelbomb sent to the Mayor of Bologna Sergio Cofferati (November 2, 2005, claimed by FAI/Cooperativa Artigiana Fuoco e Affini-occasionalmente spettacolare), the devices against the carabinieri cadets’ barracks in Fossano (June 2, 2006, claimed by FAI/RAT-Rivolta Anonima e Tremenda), the devices placed in the Turin neighbourhood, Crocetta (March 7, 2007, claimed by FAI/RAT); among the other actions also the wounding of Adinolfi (May 7, 2012), despite the fact that two comrades have already been convicted and have publicly claimed this attack, to corroborate the crime of association. It seems that the investigators, felt the need to structure their clues, used even linguistic and graphology experts, in addition to electronic and computer surveillance, and tailing.
Anna Beniamino
C. C. di Roma Rebibbia femminile
via Bartolo Longo 92
00156 Roma
Italia – Italy
Davide Delogu
An anarchist from Sardegna, convicted for 18 years for robbery and attempted murder. In 2011 made an unsuccessful attempt to run away from prison and has another case started because of it. On May 1, 2017 made another attempt to escape from prison, but failed again. He was put in isolation for half a year, and the anarchist went on hunger strike.
Via Roma Verso Scampia 350
80144 Naples (NA)
Italy
Giovanni Barcia
In the Case of the Cordoba 4 the Malaga court of appeal sentenced the anarchists Giovani Barcia, Michele Pontolillo and Claudio Lavazza, already sentenced to 11 years on September 1999, for an incident in the Italian vice-consulate in December 1996. Three persons wearing balaclavas imprisoned the consul and an employee, sending a message of solidarity to the Italian prisoners jailed by the Judge Marini (the judge who built a false accusation against Italian anarchists) and disappeared with passports and some money. These three Italians were convicted of this, as well as a previous bank robbery with sentences of 49 years for Claudio, 48 years for Giorgio and Giovanni, 3 years for Michele.
Giovanni Barcia
via Arginone, 327
44122 Ferrara
Italy
Juan Antonio Sorroche Fernandez
Juan went underground in 2017 after a warrant for his arrest was issued. He was sentenced to one year imprisonment for false identity on the occasion of an inspection in Val Clarea (Val di Susa). With more trials open and several extra years in prison, he decided to go underground and released a Communiqué from Freedom.
Juan was arrested on May 22, 2019 in Brescia, along with Manu who is being charged with the aiding and abetting. In addition, Juan is accused of unionism with the aim of terrorism and / or the overthrow of the democratic order, a terrorist act with deadly and explosive devices, massacres (§285) for the attack against the party office of “Lega Nord” in Treviso in August 2018, as well as the possession of forged documents (§497bis) and carrying weapons (due to a small knife, §4 of the Law 110/75) accused. Manuel was transferred under house arrest in March 2020. On 9 July 2022, Juan was sentenced to 28 years in jail.
C. C. di Terni
strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni
Italia – Italy
Maddalena Calore
Anarchist comrade Maddalena ‘Madda’ Calore is back in prison following her arrest under a warrant from a previous case (she was released from prison in March 2013 following a previous period in prison). During the search of her home on March 3, 2017 the police allegedly found ‘compromising’evidence, namely a toy air gun and 5 firecrackers, items that the Italian press reported as “a pistol” and “5 sticks of dynamite capable of blowing up a car”. She got 4 years and 3 months due to previous convictions.
Casa Circondariale di Montorio
via San Michele 15
37141 Verona
Italia – Italy
Mauro Rossetti Busa
Mauro Rossetti Busa was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment for fire, evasion and manufacture of explosive material, threats and with the aggravating circumstance of recidivism and social danger. The original attacks took place in the vicinity of the Casapound headquarters and to the Eni distributor in Sant’Anna in 2018. The Eni distributor, the multinational is for some time in the sights of anarchists for activities abroad, and a building near the Casapound headquarters. Mauro Rossetti Busa had succeeded in Florence, in March 2004, in an attack on a public prosecutor. During the hearing his convictions were unwavering: “I’ll send you a pack-bomb, the next one will be for you and these cops,” he said. His sentence was commutated to 7 years and 9 months.
Casa de reclusión de Ópera
via Camporgnano 40
20100 Milán
Italia – Italy
Paolo Todde
Sardinian anarchist and independence activist arrested on 31 October 2017 following an armed robbery at a post office in Cagliari. The comrade, who was with two accomplices, was arrested after a chase with the police in some streets of the city. At the end of the first instance trial, he was sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment.
C. C. di Nuoro
Località Badu ‘e Carros
via Badu ‘e Carros 1
08100 Nuoro
Italy
Northern Ireland
John Paul Wootton
John Paul Wootton is a vegan anarchist prisoner and IWW/IWOC member, wrongfully convicted to life imprisonment of the murder of a police officer in the “Craigavon 2” case, after a trial before a “Diplock” court, a secret military court with no jury. The case has been supported as a miscarriage of justice by high profile campaigners, legal experts & human rights activists. The prosecution used discredited witnesses, inconclusive forensics, and tampered evidence to secure a conviction that does not stand up to scrutiny. Security services destroyed evidence, intimidated witnesses and defence lawyers.
H5573
Magilligan Gaol
Point Rd, Magilligan
Co. Derry
North Ireland
BT49 0LR.
Russia
Azat Miftakhov
Anarchist Azat Miftakhov was detained by law enforcement officers on the morning of February 1, 2019 on suspicion of making explosives and attacking a ruling party office in Moscow. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
Miftakhov Azat Fanisovich, 1993
FKU IK-17, 612740, Kirovskaya obl.,
Omutinsk, ul. Trudovykh rezervov, 125
Russia
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Evgeny Karakashev
On February 1, 2018, Karakashev was detained, and on February 2, 2018, arrested on suspicion of committing crimes under Part 1 of Art. 282 (the incitement of hatred and enmity) and Part 2 of Art. 205.2 (public calls for terrorism) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to the investigation, Karakashev published a video on vk.com social media at the end of 2014, which allegedly calls for terrorism. In January 2017, in a chat room for 35 people, he also posted a text that contains signs of “propaganda of the ideology of violence” and “calls for terrorist activities”. In April 2019, he was sentenced to 6 years of prison. As of August 2022, he was on trial that should decide if he will be moved a higher security facility.
Karakashev Evgeny Vitalyevich, 1978 g.r.
361424, Kabardino-Balkariya,
Chegemskiy rayon, p. Kamenka,
ul. D.A. Mizieva, 1, FKU IK-1, EPKT
Russia
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Nikita Uvarov
On June 2020, five teenagers were detained in Kansk (Russia), three were later charged with training for a terrorist attack and organising a terrorist community. In fact, they were putting leaflets in support of other imprisoned anarchists, criticised the authorities online and discussed how to make explosives and direct actions. Three people were ultimately convicted (two to probation, and Nikita got 5 years in prison).
Uvarov Nikita Andreevich, 2005 g.r.
663600, Krasnoyarski kray, Kansk,
ul. Krasnoy Armii, 1 str. 8, KVK
Russia
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Pavel Krisevich
Pavel Krisevich is an actionist artist, who has been detained several times for his performances, all of which have been against repression and for political prisoners in Russia. His last action was a symbolic suicide performance in the Red Square with a gun loaded with blank cartridges on the 11th of June 2021. We support Krisevich not because he has been part of the anarchist movement (he has not), but because he has prominently supported repressed anarchists, especially those in the Penza-St. Petersburg Network case.
Pavel Olegovich Krisevich. 2000 g.r.
FKU SIZO-2 UFSIN Rossii po g. Moskve
127055 Moskva ul. Novoslobodskaya d. 45
Russia
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The Network Case (Russia)
In October 2017, FSB officers arrested six antifascists who played airsoft in the woods. The FSB planted weapons and explosives in some of their vehicles, and tortured them in pre-trial detention – beating them, hanging them upside down, electrocuting them, and threatening them with even worse. This torture was used to force the arrestees to validate forged testimony professing that they are part of an alleged terrorist “network.” At the end of January 2018, four more antifascists were arrested in St. Petersburg. They were also beaten, tortured by means of electrical shock, and forced to agree that they too were members of this invented “network.” In January 2019, Igor Shiskin was sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment. His case was considered individually as he entered into a plea bargain. In February 2020, Dmitry Pchelintsev received 18 years, Ilya Shakursky 16 years, Arman Sagynbaev 6 years, Andrei Chernov 14 years, Vasily Kuksov 9 years, Mikhail Kulkov 10 years, and Maxim Ivankin 13 years of imprisonment. In June 2020, St. Petersburg’s military court sentenced Viktor Filinkov to 7 years and Yuli Boyarshinov to 5.5 years in a penal colony (commuted to 5 years 3 months).
Below are listed the comrades who identify as anarchists. ABC Moscow and Rupression solidarity campaign are only supporting six of ten prisoners. You can find their statements and information about other defenders on www.rupression.com/en/
Victor Filinkov
Filinkov Victor Sergeevich, 1994 g.r.
FKU IK-1, 460026, Orenburg,
Krymskiy per., 119
Russia
Ilya Shakurskiy
Shakurskiy Ilya Alexandrovich, 1996 g.r.
FKU IK-17 UFSIN Rossii po Respublike Mordoviya
431161, Zubovo-Polyanskij rajon, p. Ozernyj, ul. Lesnaya, d. 3
Russia
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Slovakia
Ladislav Kuc
He is an animal liberation activist sentenced in 2014 to 25 years on charges of “illegal possession of weapons, packing explosives and terrorism” following an explosion in a McDonald’s in 2011. He is also accused of other explosive attacks against hunting turrets, letter-bombing against a veterinarian and the Tesco Stores company, as well as threatening letters to the University of Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacology and the newspaper Sme. In May 2016 the charge of terrorism was dropped, and Ladislav got 12 years after all the appeals. He is expected to be released on probation in six months.
Ladislav Kuc
Uvtos, Gucmanova 19/670
Priečinoik 7
920 41 Leopoldov
Slovakia
Spain
Gabriel Pombo da Silva
After a year and a half in hiding, anarchist Gabriel Pombo Da Silva was arrested on January 25, 2020 in Portugal and was locked in the cells of the judiciary of Porto waiting for extradition. The Girona prosecutor’s office intends that Gabriel spends another 16 years in jail due to the interpretation of a fusion of non-existent penalties. In May 2020, he was handed over to the Spanish State and is currently in the prison in Badajoz (Extremadura region).
C. P. Mansilla de las Mulas
Paraje Villahierro
24210 Mansilla de las Mulas (León) — España
Toni Chavero Mejías
Toni Chavero (TC) is from Madrid, is 52 years old and has been in and out of prison since 1996, always for robbery-related convictions and some confrontation with the jailers. Between one thing and another, he has been in prison for more than twenty years and is to be released in 2026. In hos own words, he was “a politoxicomano (poly-drug user) until I opened my eyes and started to fight”. He is in contact with comrades in Madrid, Asturias and Lleida and also with Gabriel Pombo. His mail is tapped.
Cárcel de Extremera (Madrid VII)
Carretera M-241-Km 5.750
28595 Madrid
Spain
Turkey
Osman Evcan
Osman, born in 1959 in Samsun, is an anarchist prisoner who spent the last 23 years in prison. İn 1992, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison with the charges of being a member of a leftist terrorist group and robbery. He was also imprisoned for 9 years between 1980-1989. Since Osman adopted anarchist ideas in 2003, he also became vegan and supports animal liberation struggles. Osman Evcan was imprisoned in many prisons all over the country during his conviction. He built his life fighting against authoritarian violence and especially the violence and oppression which is a systemic part of the prison’s hierarchical structure, and he still continues his fight against prison’s oppressive mentality, without giving an inch, aspiring to the right standards for anarchist, vegan, libertarian individuals. He can be released in September 2022. The worst scenario is 2028.
Osman Evcan
Silivri Kapalı Cezaevi Infaz Kurumu (9 Nolu)
Oda No: A-6-41
Kampüs PTT Cezaevi Şubesi
Istanbul/Silivri Cezaevi
Turkey
United Kingdom
Billy Ross
Billy is a Welsh trans and queer prisoner in HMP Eastwood Park, he loves: fashion; animals; fairies and paganism. If you get in touch, please be clear about whether you will be writing regularly/ if its a one off card/ letter.
Billy Ross A0048AZ,
HMP Eastwood Park,
Falfield, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 8DB
United Kingdom
Sam Faulder
Sam Faulder is an anarchist prisoner currently serving a life sentence in England. Sam is a miscarriage of justice who has done over ten years in the prison system for a murder she did not commit. She is now working with Cardiff University’s Innocence Project on her appeal. Sam was diagnosed with cancer in 2016. She could have had simple laser therapy as an early intervention, however, the private prison company Sodexo running the prison cancelled more than 9 appointments for surgery. As a result, Sam’s cancer has now spread and they are no longer able to operate further. She will begin radio-chemotherapy this summer.
Samantha Faulder A1209CF
HMP Eastwood Park,
Falfield, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 8DB
England
Toby Shone
In November 2020, a series of co-ordinated raids against 325.nostate.net were executed by Counter-Terrorism cops in UK as part of ‘Operation Adream’. Several properties in the South-West of England were searched and Toby Shone was arrested and charged under the Terrorist Act. The charges are administration of 325.nostate.net, funding of terrorism through the website and dissemination of and collection of material useful to terrorists.
Toby was bailed from November 2020 to February 2021 when he was re-arrested and remanded to HMP Wandsworth in London before his transfer to Bristol. Toby was sentenced to 3 years 9 months in prison for 8 drug offences at Bristol Crown Court on October 13, 2021 after the Terrorism charges were dropped. He has already served 8 months of this sentence on remand.
Toby Shone A7645EP,
HMP Parc, Heol Hopcyn John,
Coity, Bridgend, CF35 6AP
United Kingdom
Kill the Bill protest – Bristol
What happened on 21st March 2021 was an outpouring of rage against the violence of the police. The crowd fought back after police officers attacked the crowd with batons and riot shields. Pepper spray was used indiscriminately, people were charged at with horses and hit over the head with batons and shields . The protesters fought back, seizing police riot shields, helmets and batons to defend themselves. By the end of the evening several police vehicles had been set on fire. The demonstration was against the Police, Courts and Sentencing Bill, a bill which aims to give the police even more power to repress political dissent.
Ryan Roberts A5155EM
HMP Swaleside
Brabazon Rd, Eastchurch
Isle of Sheppey, ME12 4AX
United Kingdom
Mariella Gedge-Rogers A8811ET
HMP Eastwood Park
Falfield, Wotton-Under-Edge, GL12 8DB
United Kingdom
Matthew O’Neill A1596CT
HMP Guys Marsh
Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 0AH
United Kingdom
Ben Rankin A1261AY
HMP Portland
104 the Grove, Easton
Portland, Dorset, DT5 1DL
United Kingdom
Ryan Dwyer A4276AT
HMP Portland
104 the Grove, Easton
Portland, Dorset, DT5 1DL
United Kingdom
Brandon Lloyd A0806EE
HMP Portland
104 the Grove, Easton
Portland, Dorset, DT5 1DL
United Kingdom
Callum Middleton A1817ET
HMP Portland
104 the Grove, Easton
Portland, Dorset, DT5 1DL
United Kingdom
Kane Adamson A1103ER,
HMP Portland
104 the Grove, Easton
Portland, Dorset, DT5 1DL
United Kingdom
Shaun Davies A4075ER
HMP Portland
104 the Grove, Easton
Portland, Dorset, DT5 1DL
United Kingdom
Kain Simmonds A9381EQ
HMP Portland
104 the Grove, Easton
Portland, Dorset, DT5 1DL
United Kingdom
Joseph Foster A1421CD
HMP Bristol, Horfield
19 Cambridge Road
Bristol, BS7 8PS
United Kingdom
William Houlton A1824ET
HMP Portland
104 the Grove, Easton
Portland, Dorset, DT5 1DL
United Kingdom
Charly May Pitman A8737EV
HMP Eastwood Park
Falfield, Wotton-Under-Edge, GL12 8DB
United Kingdom
USA
Bill Dunne
Bill Dunne arrested in 1979 when he and Larry Giddings attempted to free fellow revolutionary Artie Ray Dufur. The two successfully freed Artie, but were arrested after an exchange of fire with police as they were fleeing the scene. Bill and Larry were charged with auto theft and aiding and abetting the escape, for which Bill received an 80-year federal prison sentence. In 1983, Bill attempted to escape prison and was sentenced to a further 15 years in prison. Bill spent seven and a half years in lockdown at the infamous maximum security Marion prison for his attempted prison break.
Bill Dunne #10916-086
FCI Victorville Medium I
PO Box 3725
Adelanto, California 92301
USA
Casey Brezik
Casey Brezik is an anarchist from the Kansas City area. In 2010, anarchist Casey Brezik tried to assassinate the governor of Missouri. In June 2013, he was convicted and sentenced to a dozen years on each of three counts – assault and two armed criminal action charges – and seven years on a second count of assault. All sentences will run concurrently.
Casey Brezik, #1154765
Jefferson City Correctional Center
8200 No More Victims Road
Jefferson City, Missouri 65101
USA
Dan Baker
Daniel Baker is an anti-fascist activist who was arrested on January 15, 2021 for social media posts that called for defense against possible far-right attacks on the state’s capitol in the wake of the January 6th riots. Daniel was facing up to 10 years for two counts of transmitting a communication in interstate commerce containing a threat to kidnap or injure. On October 12th, 2021 he was sentenced to 44 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release.
Daniel Baker #25765-509
FCI Memphis
Post Office Box 34550
Memphis, Tennessee 38184
USA
Eric King
Eric was arrested and charged with an attempted firebombing of a government official’s office in Kansas City, MO. Eric allegedly threw a hammer through a window of the building and then threw two lit bottles inside, though both failed to ignite. He was identified as a suspect by local police because he had previously come under suspicion for anti-government and anti-police graffiti. Eric is allegedly involved with the Kansas City Fight Back insurrectionist collective.
In his own words: Eric accepted a non-cooperating plea agreement in March 2016 to a federal felony charge that carries a sentence of 10 years in prison. The charge is 18 U.S.C. § 844(h), use of explosive materials to commit arson of property used in or affecting interstate commerce. On June 28, 2016 Eric was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in the federal district court in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Eric King #27090-045
USP Florence ADMAX
PO Box 8500
Florence, CO 81226
USA
Gage Halupowski
Gage Halupowski was arrested along with two other protesters in the wake of clashes in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square, later indicted on four criminal charges, including second-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, attempted assault of a public safety officer, and interfering with a peace officer. In November 2019, Gage was convicted and sentenced to six years in state prison.
Gage Halupowski #21894460
South Fork Forest Camp
48300 Wilson River Highway
Tillamook, Oregon 97141-9799
USA
Jennifer Amelia Rose
Jennifer Amelia Rose is an anti-authoritarian trans woman and insurrectionist amazon held captive for over 25 years for armed robberies and a 1995 attack on a district attorney and associate prison warden. She took part in the 1991 Folsom Prison hunger strike, after which she was beaten and tortured, convicted for armed resistance, and sentenced to multiple 25-to-life sentences under the Three Strikes Law. She has spent over ten years in solitary confinement at Folsom and the Pelican Bay Secure Housing Unit. Despite all of this, Jennifer continues to struggle for freedom, remaining a committed anti-authoritarian, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-capitalist.
Jennifer Amelia Rose #E-23852
Salinas Valley State Prison D3-1250
P. O. Box 1050
Soledad, CA 93960-1050
USA
Jessica Reznicek
Jessica Reznicek is a 40 year old land and water defender who has worked with and lived in the Des Moines Catholic Worker Community for the last 10 years. In 2016, Jessica took a stand against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Iowa. Jessica attended public comment hearings, gathered signatures for valid requests for Environmental Impact Statements, and participated in civil disobedience, hunger strikes, marches and rallies, boycotts and encampments. When the process failed, she concluded the system was broken, and it was up to individuals to take action and protect the water. She and a fellow Catholic Worker then spent the next couple months disabling construction machinery along the pipeline route. No one was injured by their actions, and the land was protected from the flow of oil for an additional six months. On February 6, 2021, Jessica pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Damage an Energy Facility and on June 30, 2021 was designated a domestic terrorist by the court and sentenced to 8 years in prison, followed by 3 years supervised probation, and a restitution of $3,198,512.70 paid to Energy Transfer LLC.
Jessica Reznicek #19293-030
FCI Waseca PO Box 1731 Waseca,
MN 56093
United States
Marius Mason
Long-time activist in the environmental and labour movements. In March 2008, he was arrested by federal authorities for charges related to two acts of property destruction that occurred in 1999 and 2000; no one was injured in either of them. He accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced on February 5, 2009 to just under 22 years. He is now serving the longest sentence of any “Green Scare” prisoner.
Marie (Marius) Mason #04672-061
FCI Danbury
Route 37
Danbury, CT 06811
United States
address outer envelope to Marie (Marius) Mason, inside to Marius
Michael Kimble
Michael Kimble is a black, gay anarchist serving a life sentence in Alabama for the murder of a white, homophobic, racist bigot. During his first years of imprisonment, Michael embraced communism, but soon moved away from it and toward anarchy because, as he describes it “anarchism is not about building a hierarchical structure for liberation somewhere in the distant future, but about living your life, now, in a fashion that’s liberating.” Michael has a long history of both individual and collective struggle against prison authority, and continues to engage in the fight against prison slave labour as part of the Free Alabama Movement.
Michael Kimble #138017/G1-24A
William E. Donaldson Correctional
100 Warrior Ln
Bessemer, AL 35023
USA
Noah “Kado” Coffin
Noah “Kado” Coffin is an anarchist prison rebel serving a 15-year sentence at the Eastham Unit in Texas, much of which he’s spent in solitary confinement. He is regularly writing about violation of prisoners rights.
Noah Coffin #1795167
O.B. Ellis Unit
1697 FM 980
Huntsville, TX 77343
USA
Oso Blanco (Byron Chubbuck)
Oso Blanco is an indigenous activist originally serving 80 years in prison for a series of bank expropriations throughout the southwest in 1998-1999. In 2016, 25 years were taken off his sentence when he won his Johnson v. U.S. appeal. He is part of the wolf clan Cherokee/Choctaw, raised in New Mexico. His indigenous name is Oso Blanco or Yona Unega in Cherokee. He was known to the FBI as ‘Robin the Hood’ because he informed the bank tellers he was expropriating funds to assist the poor and indigenous people fighting for independence in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
Byron Shane Chubbuck #07909-051
USP Victorville
P.O. Box 3900
Adelanto, CA 92301
United States
Sean Swain
Sean Swain is a hostage held by a lawless rogue-state calling itself “The State of Ohio.” He has been held without legal conviction or sentence since 1991 for the self-defence killing of a court official’s relative who broke into Sean’s home and threatened his life. In fall of 2012, prisoners calling themselves the Army of the 12 Monkeys (A12M) got rowdy at Mansfield Correctional, and the prison authorities assumed “that anarchist” Sean Swain must have been behind it and threw him in supermax isolation. Sean denies any involvement or affiliation with the A12M and is in the process of suing the ODRC for targeting him based exclusively on his ideology and political speech. Sean is the only son of a retired auto worker and stay-home mom. He has renounced his high school diploma, his college degree, and his honourable discharge from the U.S. military. Before being taken hostage, Sean worked as a newspaper columnist and as a union organizer.
Sean Swain #A243205
OSP Youngstown
878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd
Youngstown, OH 44505
USA
Sofia Johnson
‘The she/they insurrectionist enby of your dreams. Write me about the Miami Heat, Friedrich Nietzsche, or come park your car. I’m 25, single, a fan of roses that are black and things that go boom.’
Sofia ‘Candle’ Johnson’s sentence is largely driven, time-wise, by her conviction in relation to her robbery of a 7/11 in Beaverton, Oregon; she robbed the cashier at gunpoint for around-$860 and a handful of Backwoods cigars. Though she succeeded in fleeing from the police, she was later indicted while in custody pertaining to charges that arose from her squatting of a vacant veterinary clinic. She accepted a plea-agreement of the mandatory-minimum, 90-months, per §ORS 137.700. All of her convictions run concurrently, meaning Sofia’s hard-release date is set as 12/22/2028. She has no remorse for her acts and holds the State in contempt. Sofia is an intellectual, and though her acts arose of necessity they were not born of impulse. She believes it is always time to act, even alone, that no act is more or less significant than another.
Sofia Johnson
SID #23976151
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
24499 SW Grahams Ferry Road
Wilsonville, OR 97070
USA
Xinachtli (Alvaro Hernandez)
Xinachtli is a Chicano-Mexicano, anarchist political prisoner sentenced to 50 years in prison for aggravated assault on an officer when he disarmed a sheriff attempting to shoot him. Since in April 2016, he has been going by his chosen name Xinachtli, which is Nahuatl for seed.
Alvaro Hernández #255735
McConnell Unit
3001 South Emily Drive
Beeville, TX 78102
United States
*Sending letters to Belarus. Before sending letters or cards, check with your local post if they send mail to Belarus – because of the sanctions, some countries stopped cooperating with Belarusian postoffices. Also, political prisoners in Belarus are reporting non-delivery and destruction of mail coming from comrades even inside the country. You can try to send the letters anyway, but take pictures of them and send them to belarus_abc@riseup.net – ABC-Belarus will pass them to relatives or lawyers. Alternatively, use an online form on their website https://abc-belarus.org/?
page_id=8682&lang=en
**Sending letters to Russia. Censorship in Russian pre-trial detention centres and correctional facilities forbids prisoners to correspond in foreign languages. Please use online translators to compose a message in Russian. Discussing a criminal case, radical statements, even conveying news and opinions about Russian military aggression against Ukraine can lead to pressure and the imposition of penalties on the prisoner. Of course, you are free to write whatever you want, but try to formulate your message in such a way that it does not harm the recipient.
If you are writing to prisoners outside of organised solidarity events, find out if it is possible to send letters to the Russian Federation from your region. At the moment, there is no postal service with Ukraine, Sweden, Poland, Denmark, Finland and Australia. If you are writing from a region where it is not possible to send a letter to prisoners in Russia, you can scan the message or postcard and send it to abc-msk@riseup.net. The activist team in Russia will print out all the material received
and send it to the prisoners.