German-Ukrainian blogger Alexander "shiitman" Volodarsky
15th of December of 2009 regional court of Primorsky overturned sentence of anarchist anti-fascist Yuri Mishutkin, who was 12th of October given a one-year probational sentence according to statute 108 part 1 of the Russian criminal codex (manslaughter due to exceeding necessary limits of self-defence).
Look for prisoner list in the ABC Moscow wiki.
In Izhevsk, officers of Centre of Counteraction Against Extremism (CPE, new Russian political police, formed in January of 2009) are falsifying a case against members of Autonomous Action. According to Galina Shutova, who is yet a witness in the case, state wants to make her a terrorist: “Officer of CPE Artyom Ahmetzyanov said to me directly, that he wants to do anything to lock me down”.
12th of October sentencing of Yura M., anarchist who killed a local Nazi in self-defence 22nd of November 2008. This was third time Yura got attacked by Nazis, he was jumped in April of 2006 15 to 5 and was hospitalized with a brain damage. He also suffered seriously in attack against Ecological protest camp in Angarsk 21st of July 2007, after attack he spent days in coma, two months in hospital and it took a whole year for him to recover. His friend Ilya Borodaenko was not that lucky, and he died as a result of the attack.
Our comrade Aleksey Bychin is still waiting court in St. Petersburg remand prison at Akademika Lebedeva street. Court has been postponed, and this is a difficult time for him, so any support is welcome!
You may write to him to address
Aleksey Bychin
SIZO 47/2
ul. Akademika Lebedeva, dom. 39
195005 St. Peterburg Russia
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