International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners
Prisoners
Long-term Anarchist Prisoners
These are, of course, not all of the longterm anarchist prisoners, only all of those we have been in touch with, either directly or via their support crews. If you support a longterm anarchist prisoner who would like to have their situation or words featured on this page, please email us at june11th at riseup dot net.
Marius Mason
Marius Mason is an anarchist, environmental, and animal rights prisoner. In March 2008, he was arrested by federal authorities for charges related to two acts of property destruction that occurred in 1999 and 2000 – damaging an office connected to GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) research, and destroying a piece of logging equipment. He faced a life sentence before accepting a plea bargain in September 2008. In 2009 he was sentenced to almost 22 years – the longest sentence of any Green Scare prisoner. An appeal for a reduction in his sentence was denied in 2010.
The Green Scare is the name given to the arrests of animal rights and environmental activists who have been charged with acts of economic sabotage. Federal authorities have sought lengthy sentences (often life in prison) and have publicly and legally labeled the activists as “terrorists” – despite the fact that no one has been killed or injured in any of the acts.
In 2014, Marius came out to friends, family, and supporters as transgender. Ever since, he has advocated for himself and other trans prisoners to have access to name changes, hormones and other gender-affirming medical care, and transfer to other facilities. He started the Day of Solidarity with Trans Prisoner which occurs every year on January 22. Currently, the progress made by trans prisoners is being rolled back and Marius was transferred back to a women’s facility. Marius is a prolific artist, poet, and musician.
1) all letters have to be written on only one side of the page and are limited to 5 pages. 2) no letters that are on colored paper or on cardstock. 3) any photos must be sent through a company and not directly from the sender. No more than 25 photos will be accepted. 4) all acceptable letters will be photocopied in black and white and that copy given to the inmate.
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-defense 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 targetting 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 honorable discharge from the U.S. military. Before being taken hostage, Sean worked as a newspaper columnist and as a union organizer.
Though innocent of any crime, and though he is held without legal conviction or sentence, Sean will only be liberated when the illegitimate power of the lawless rogue state holding him hostage is abolished once and for all.
The State started the war. Sean Swain intends to finish it.
Sean contributes to Fire Ant journal, has books published with Little Black Cart, and Contributes regularly to The Final Straw radio show.
Sean Swain #A243205 Ohio State Penitentiary 878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd Youngstown, OH 44505
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 racism, homophobia, and prison authority. He continues to organize with and help his fellow prisoners.
Michael Kimble #138017/0-28 Ventress Correctional Center P.O. Box 767 Clayton, AL 36016-0767
Alfredo Cospito
Un momento del processo ad Alfredo Cospito ideologo anarchico del Fai nel tribunale di Torino, 5 dicembre 2022 ANSA/TINO ROMANO
Italian anarchist Alfredo Cospito was jailed for 10 years in 2012 for shooting Ansaldo Nuclear chief Roberto Adinolfi in the leg, after this sorcerer of the atomic industry made callous statement following the Fukishima disaster. Nicola Gai received a slightly lesser 9 year sentence for being the getaway driver, and has since been released. During that imprisonment, Alfredo was also sentenced to life imprisonment for previously setting off two bombs in front of a police academy near Turin in 2006.
In May 2022, he was moved to 41-bis, becoming the first anarchist to be punished under the particularly heinous solitary confinement regime. Alfredo’s book ‘Which International?’ was used to help justify the move.
He began a hunger strike in October 2022, and has pledged to fight the “non-life” imposed under 41-bis, which concluded with success in April 2023. His continued outspoken iconoclasm continued to inspire waves of solidarity and individualized actions.
Yet another case has begun against him in March 2023, along with other comrades, as part of the Italian Operation Sibilla.
sentencing statements: “One thing sure is that words have lost all their meaning; if we are terrorists, what would you call those who produce weapons, tracking systems for missiles, drones, fighter-bombers, equipment to hunt people trying to cross borders, nuclear power stations, those who do deals with assassins in uniform and famous dictators, in other words, how would you define Finmeccanica?” Nicola Gai
“Ansaldo Nucleare and Finmeccanica bear huge responsibilities. Their projects continue to sow death everywhere. Recently the rumour has spread of probable investments in the enlargement of the nuclear plant of Kryko, Slovenia, a high seismic risk area very close to Italy. In Cernadova, Romania, several incidents have occurred since 2000, caused by Ansaldo’s stupidity during the construction of one of their plants. How many lives have been lost? How much blood shed? Technocrats of Anslado and Finmeccanica, all facile smiles and a ‘clean’ conscience: your ‘progress’ stinks of death, and the death you sow all over the world is shouting for revenge.” Alfredo Cospito
Alfredo Cospito C.C. «G.Bacchiddu» Strada Provinciale 56, n°4 Località Bancali 07100 Sassari
Send your receipts to: cassantirepalpi@autistici.org (Cassa AntiRep delle Alpi occidentali)
Anna Beniamino
Anna Beniamino is an anarchist sentenced to 17 years by the Italian state for allegedly taking part in five separate bombing attacks, and for promoting the FAI. Her sentence is part of the Scripta Manent case. The Fossano bombing in 2006 attacked a school for training Italy’s Carabinieri military-police officers. The Crocetta bombing in 2007 was aimed at the police, and took place in the Crocetta District in Turin. Three mail bombings in 2006 were sent to the then-mayor of Turin, the editor of the newspaper Torino Cronaca, and to a company involved in a prison built for detaining and deporting migrants.
Address: Anna Beniamino C.C. di Roma Rebibbia femminile via Bartolo Longo 92 00156 Roma Italia – Italy
Bill Dunne
Bill Dunne is an anti-authoritarian sentenced to 90 years for the attempted liberation of comrades from Seattle’s King County Jail in 1979 and for attempting to break himself out of Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1983. Dunne was charged with possession of an automatic weapon, auto theft, and with aiding & abetting the escape. Charges further alleged the operation was financed by bank expropriations and facilitated by illegal acquisition of weapons and explosives. Bill and his codefendant, Larry Giddings, were accused by police of being “members of a small, heavily armed group of revolutionaries,” associated with the Wellspring Communion.
Dunne has made the rounds of the federal prison system with stints at the infamous Control Unit in Marion, Illinois; Atwater; and Big Sandy where he has assisted prisoners with political & academic education. Bill also organizes solidarity runs in conjunction with the Anarchist Black Cross Federation’s “Running Down the Walls” 5K runs and has edited and written for 4 Struggle magazine.
Larry Giddings was paroled from federal prison in 2004. Bill went before the parole board in the winter of 2014, was rejected and given a 15 year ‘hit’ (meaning he cannot go back to the board for that time period).
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.
Address: Joaquin Garcia Chanks Complejo Penitenciario Rancagua – Modulo 1 Calle La Gonzalina s/n Rancagua, Region O’Higgins Chile
Monica Caballero & Francisco Solar
No strangers to repression, they were kidnapped by the Chilean state during the “Caso Bombas” until they were absolved of all charges related to a prior wave of incendiary attacks by anarchist groups. They were also charged for the bomb attack on the Basilica del Pilar in Spain in 2013, and were sentenced to 12 years in prison. After a number of appeals processes the two were allowed to return to Chile in 2017.
In December of 2023 Monica Cabellero was sentenced to 12 years in prison, convicted of being an accomplice in the double explosive attack against the Tánica building in February 2020. Francisco Solar received a total of 86 years in prison: two counts of sending explosive artifacts (54th Precinct and Hinzpeter) 12 years + 12 years. One count of attempted homicide of a carabinero: 15 years. One count of serious injury to a carabinero: 6 years. One count of less serious injury: 600 days. Five counts of minor injuries: 100 days (each). 500 days. One count of aggrivated damages (Commussioner): 818 days. One count of attempted homicide of Hinzpeter: 12 years. Two counts of placing an explosive device (Tánica): 12 years + 12 years. Appeals are pending at the time of this writing.
During the first week of April 2025, preparation for the trial against anarchist comrades Aldo and Lucas Hernandez, who have been incarcerated since December 2022, was carried out.
This instance is the direct prelude to the trial that the comrades will face shortly. The democratic inquisition requests sentences of 90 years in prison for Aldo and 26 years for Lucas. Accused of participating in the explosive attack against the National Police Headquarters and of arms possession, respectively.
Today Lucas is being held hostage in the Santiago 1 prison, while Aldo finds himself in a severe isolation regime in La Gonzalina prison in Rancagua.
Jennifer Amelia Rose (previously known as Jennifer Gann) 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. She has worked with Black & Pink and contributes to the Fire Ant journal.
Jennifer Amelia Rose #WH2537 Central California Women’s Facility P. O. Box 1508 Chowchilla, CA 93610
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 spends her time supporting other prisoners. She is now working with Cardiff University’s Innocence Project on her appeal.
Sam’s story highlights intersecting challenges of mental health, trauma, addiction and a corrupt criminal justice system in which there is no even playing field. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2016, beginning a long journey of medical neglect in the prison system where access to treatment faced significant delays and disruption. Her interests include music, astrology, and pagan spirituality. She loves post with silly pictures and nature images.
Samantha Faulder A1209CF HMP Eastwood Park Falfield Wotton-under-Edge GL12 8DB
Xinachtli
Xinachtli (Nahuatl, meaning “seed”) is a community organizer from Texas. Police informants were used to monitor Xinachtli’s organizing activities in the barrio. They were told Xinachtli was “typing legal papers,” “had many books” and was working on police brutality cases in Alpine.
The police knew of Xinachtli’s history of community-based organizing and his legal skills. Xinachtli was recognized nationally and internationally as the national coordinator of the Ricardo Aldape Guerra Defense Committee, which led the struggle to free Mexican national Aldape Guerra from Texas’ death row after being framed by Houston police for allegedly killing a cop. Xinachtli’s human rights work was recognized in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico and other countries. He was sentenced in Odessa, Texas on June 2-9, 1997 to 50 years in prison for defending himself by disarming a police officer drawing a weapon on him. The trial evidence clearly showed Xinachtli was the victim of witch hunts and a police-orchestrated conspiracy to frame or eliminate him.
Address envelope to: Texas Department of Criminal Justice Alvaro Luna Hernandez #00255735 PO Box 660400 Dallas, Texas 75266-0400
Address letter to Xinachtli
Oso Blanco
While his Cherokee name is Yona Unega (White Bear), from growing up in New Mexico he is used to being called Oso Blanco (White Bear in Spanish). He is now serving 55 years in prison for bank robbery, aggravated assault on the FBI, escape and firearms charges. Oso Blanco defended himself from federal agents in a gun battle on August 13th 1999 at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although he escaped, he was arrested later that day. After being held just over a year in New Mexico State Penitentiary, he escaped from a prison transport van and almost immediately resumed robbing banks before he was recaptured. Oso Blanco never used a gun in any bank robbery, but he has a long history of living by the gun and will not hesitate to use it on the agents of repression or the occupiers of Aztlan whom force false laws on the true people of this land. He is not asking for monetary support– he’s only asking that people become aware of indigenous people’s issues. In an interview he expressed: “I am still able to hold my head up high and feel the gratification for my work in a world where money, power and destructive industries are regarded far above humanity, indigenous and impoverished peoples and cultures. I cannot help that I got deeply into my work…”
Ryan was arrested with over 75 people after the confrontation with the police at Bristol’s Bridewell police station at the Kill the Bill demonstration on March 21st 2021. He was convicted of riot and four counts of arson, and sentenced on the 17th December 2021 at Bristol Crown Court to a total of 14 years in prison. Three of the sentences run consecutively and only one concurrently, hence the brutal sentence of 14 years. As it is over seven years, it means he has to do two-thirds of the sentence (9 years and 4 months).
As of May 2025, Ryan is held in HMP Lowdham Grange, and a fundraiser for him is running on Chuffed.com after he lost all his property in a prison fire. UK prisoners can be contacted through emailaprisoner.com
Address: Ryan Roberts A5155EM HMP Lowdham Grange Old Epperstone Road Lowdham Nottingham NG14 7DA United Kingdom
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 Chatzivasileiadis, currently in hiding. 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.
An anarchist from Sardinia, 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.
Address: Davide Delogu Via Roma Verso Scampia 350 80144 Naples (NA) Italy
Nikos Maziotis
Nikos was sentenced to a 86 years’ imprisonment in absentia in the Revolutionary Struggle case. His sentence was merged into 50 years. However, the maximum prison term is 25 years (which are typically served either as a full sentence or by day wages in prisons, or after the completion of 3/5 of the prison term, when a prisoner can be granted conditional release under specific conditions). His request for conditional release has been rejected by the Greek courts since he pronounced the obvious truth that “revolutionaries are not ‘corrected’ nor ‘morally improved’” in early 2025, so he is expected to serve his full sentence.
Nikos was on the run for two years, was seriously wounded and arrested on July 16, 2014, after a shootout with cops in Monastiraki.
John Paul Wootton is a vegan anarchist prisoner and IWW/IWOC member, wrongfully convicted 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.
Ihar Alinevich is a Belarusian anarchist. Arrested on the night of 28-29 October 2020 close to Ukrainian border by Belarusian border guards together with Siarhei Ramanau, Dzmitry Rezanovich and Dzmitry Dubouski. 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.
On December 22, 2021 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Address for letters:
Olinevich Igor Vladimirovich ST-8, ul. Sovetskaya, 22A Zhodino,222163
Sergey Romanov is an anarchist from Gomel. 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 Alinevich. 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. Right now is held in KGB Prison in Minsk.
Sergey previously spent 5 years in prison for carrying explosives, upon release, a case of violating the probation requirements.
On December 22, 2021 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Address for letters:
Romanov Sergey Aleksandrovich IK № 9, ul. Dobrolubova 16, g. Horki, Mogilovskaya oblast’, Belarus, 213410
Birthday 7 June
Dzmitry Dubousky | Dmitry Dubovski
Dmitry Dubovski 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 Alinevich. 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. Right now is held in KGB Prison in Minsk.
Dmitry was on the run for 10 years persecuted for direct actions of 2009-2010.
On December 22, 2021 he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. In early September 2022, his sentence was extended by 2 years over a verdict related to his previous political activities.
Address for letters:
Dubovski Dmitry Nikolaevich ST-4, ul. Krupskoy 99A 212011 Mogilev Belarus
Birthday June 29th
Dzmitry Rezanovich | Dmitry Rezanovich
Dmitry Rezanovich is an anarchist from Gomel. Arrested on the night of 28-29 October 2020 close to Ukrainian border by Belarusian border guards together with Sergey Romanov, Dmitry Rezanovich and Ihar Alinevich. 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. Right now is held in KGB Prison in Minsk.
On December 22, 2021 he was sentenced to 19 years in prison. In 2024, his sentence was extended by 9 months for “malicious disobedience to prison administration”.
Address for letters:
Rezanovich Dmitry Grigorievich Turma-1, ul. Kirova 16 230023 Grodno Belarus
Malik is a Black, Muslim, pansexual, anarchist revolutionary, political prisoner, husband and father. He is serving a 10 year sentence for bold actions taken for liberation during the 2020 Uprising in Portland, Oregon.
Malik Muhammad #23935744 Snake River Correctional Institution 777 Stanton Blvd Ontario, OR 97914-8335
Julio “Comrade Z” Zuniga
Julio is a longterm anarchist prisoner held in the Texas system and a frequent contributor to projects such as Mongoose Distro. He is currently preparing for an upcoming parole bid, and encourages people to contact his attorney at markmorales.com to discuss how they can support his parole application. You can find his art here & learn more about him from this interview with the Final Straw Radio here.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Julio A Zuniga #01961551 John B. Connally Unit 899 FM 632 Kenedy, TX 78119
Tyumen Case Prisoners
In August 2022 5 anarchist and anti-fascists were arrested and accused of setting up a terrorist organisation, attempting to blow up offices of security service FSB and railroads. Evidence on the case is dubious, mostly based on confessions acquired with torture. Originally Deniz Aidyn was arrested with Kirill Brik in Tyumen, allegedly attempting to test an improvised explosive device in forest. Unfortunately, after tortures, Kirill Brik became a cooperating witness and his testimony is in a danger of burying all the other defendants to 30 years in prison, Nikita Oleinik is facing a risk of life sentence as alleged “leader” of the group. Find updates here.
Deniz Aidyn Deniz Alattinovich Aidyn 1999 g.r. SIZO-1, ul. Yalutorovskaya d.42, 625000 Tyumen Russia
Yuri Neznamov Yuri Yevgenevich Neznamov 1995 g.r. SIZO-1, ul. Yalutorovskaya d.42, 625000 Tyumen Russia
Daniil Chertykov Daniil Germanobich Chertykov 1994 g.r. SIZO-1, ul. Yalutorovskaya d.42, 625000 Tyumen Russia
Roman Paklin Roman Vladimirovich Paklin 1997 g.r. SIZO-1, ul. Yalutorovskaya d.42, 625000 Tyumen Russia
Note that all letters should be sent only in Russian language – you may use machine translation. Also, several countries have halted mail service with Russia. In case mail service is halted in your country, you may pass letters via ABC Moscow e-mail address abc-msk@riseup.net.
Network Case Prisoners
First fabricated case against anarchism due to terrorism was the Network case of anarchists in Penza and Saint-Petersburg, arrested in 2017-2018. 10 people sentenced to prison were suspected of having established an underground anarchist organisation preparing for insurrectionary activities, although no proven action had taken place. 3 of the sentenced are already released, seven are still in prison, of whom 6 are listed in the prisoner list by Anarchist Black Cross of Moscow: Viktor Filinkov (sentenced to 7 years), Vasili Kuksov (sentenced to 9 years), Mikhail Kulkov (sentenced to 10 years), Andrei Chernov (sentenced to 14 years), Ilya Shakurskiy (sentenced to 16 years), and Dmitriy Pchelintsev (sentenced to 19 years). Seventh prisoner, Maxim Ivankin, was sentenced this February to 24 years in prison due to double homicide of two of his friends who were on the run with him due to drug-related charges. Anarchist Black Cross of Moscow considers testimony against Ivankin credible, and has withdrawn support for him, although his sentence for the Network case is fabricated. Find updates here.
Andrey Chernov Chernov Andrey Sergeevich 1989 g.r. FKU IK-5 UFSIN Rossii po Udmurtskoy Respublike 427965 ul. Raskolnikova 53a g. Sarapul, Udmurtskaya Respublika 427965 Russia
Vasiliy Kuksov Kuksov Vasiliy Alekseevich 1988 g.r., FKU LIU-3 GUFSIN Rossii po Nizhegorodskoy oblasti, ul. Centralnaya d. 22, Krasnobakovskiy rayon, p. Prudy Nizhegorodskaya oblast 606707 Russia
Mihail Kulkov Kulkov Mikhail Alekseevich 1994 g.r. FKU IK-6 UFSIN Rossii po Respublike Mariy El ul. Stroiteley 56a g. Yoshkar-Ola 424006 Russia
Ilya Shakurskiy Ilya Aleksandrovich Shakurskiy 1996 g.r. FKU IK-17 UFSIN Rossii po Respublike Mordoviya ul. Lesnaya d. 3 Zubovo-Polyanskiy rayon, p. Ozernyi 431161 Respublika Mordoviya Russia
Note that all letters should be sent only in Russian language – you may use machine translation. Also, several countries have halted mail service with Russia. In case mail service is halted in your country, you may pass letters via ABC Moscow e-mail address abc-msk@riseup.net.
Russian Anti-War Direct Action Prisoners
In February 2024 anti-war prisoner Anton Zhuchkov, sentenced for 10 years for planned anti-war Molotov cocktail action against police in center of Moscow, was tortured in a Krasnoyarsk prison in Siberia, during a transfer to his distant destination colony. Among other things, during torture he was asked about Anarchist Black Cross. Zhuchkov is not an anarchist, but in early stages of his arrest, he was contacted in name of the Anarchist Black Cross. Currently he is supported by Solidarity Zone, anti-authoritarian initiative to support anti-war direct action prisoners.
Among anti-war prisoners two are anarchists, but neither of them have yet been sentenced. There is however, little doubt that both of them will be sentenced, and that they will be long time anarchist prisoners. Conviction rate in Russia courts is more than 99%,
Anton Zhuchkov and Vladimir Sergeev have been sentenced to 10 years and 8 years imprisonment respectively, for attempted public suicide in protest against the war.
Alexey Rozhkov is one of the first people who took direct action against war in Ukraine in Russia. 11th of March 2022, 15 days after beginning of the war, he attacked a military enlistment office in a suburb of the city of Yekaterinburg in Ural mountains with a Molotov cocktail, and was immediately arrested. He was released court pending in the autumn of 2022, as his accusations were not severe, an he managed to escape to Kyrgysztan, from where he was illegally rendered back to Russia in May of 2023. Back in Russia, he was charged with a number of terrorist offenses, and now he will face up to 30 years in prison.
Rouslan Sidiki is an anarchist accused of causing an explosion, on a railway used to transport military equipment and fuel to the Russian army in Ukraine. The result was the derailment of 19 carriages of a goods train. There were no casualties, although the driver’s assistant sustained non-serious injuries. Russian Railways assessed the damage at €300.000.
Anton Aleksandrovich Zhuchkov, 1983 g.r., 662606, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, g. Minusinsk, ul. Gorkovo, d. 114 FKU T
Rozhkov Alexey Igorevich, born in 1997 620019, Russia, Yekaterinburg, Repina street, 4, SIZO-1
Sidiki Ruslan Kasemovich, born 1988 125130 Moscow, ul. Vyborgskaya d. 20 SIZO-5
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Anarchist mathematician Azat Miftakhov was supposed to be released 4th of September last year, having finished a 6 year sentence for anarchist action in Moscow, in which a smoke bomb was thrown inside ruling United Russia party. However, Miftakhov was detained in the prison gate with a fabricated case of “justification of terrorism” due to comments supporting anarchist bomber Mikhail Zhlobitski in discussion with other prisoners. Eventually 28th of March 2024 Azat Miftakhov was given a new prison sentence of 4 years, which means that he will spend altogether almost a decade in prison. Find updates here.
Miftakhov Azat Fanisovich, 1993 g.r. 620085, Ekaterinburg, Elizavetinskoye shosse, 19, SIZO-5, Russia
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Belarussian Long-term Prisoners:
Akikhiro Gaevsky-Khanada
Akikhira was born on 18 June 2000, he is an anarchist from Minsk detained on August 12, 2020 with Aliaksandr Frantskevich and accused of participation in mass riots. As reported, Akikhira was beaten after detention. In February 2020 a new accusation was added of participation in an international criminal organisation.
An international criminal organisation case was filed against Minsk activists Aliaksandr Frantskevich, Andrei Chapiuk, Akikhira Gajeuski-Khanada and Maryia Rabkova in February 2021. Law enforcers claim that the organisation had chapters in various cities and countries and was sponsored by some informal foundations. In early March, seven people were detained in Brest, and another 15 suspects, according to law enforcers, left Belarus.
On September 6, 2022, Akikhira was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Later the sentence was commuted by three months.
In the summer of 2024, he was first transferred to a cell-type facility for 4 months and later transferred to a prison regime in ST-4.
Aleksandr Frantskevich
ABC-Belarus withdrew its support for Aliaksandr Frantskevich in 2015 for using violence against comrades, threatening our collective, and his position on the collective property of the movement. After Aliaksandr’s arrest in 2020, ABC declared critical support for him, read more in the statement.
Aleksey Golovko
On April 25, 2022 in Minsk city court the hearing of the “international criminal organization” of anarchists began. According to the investigation, the activists of the Revolutionary Action in Belarus, Revolutionary Freedom in Ukraine and People’s Self-Defense in Russia created a criminal organization to undermine the regimes. On September 6, 2022, Judge Sergey Hripach pronounced the verdict to the 10 defendants in the case of international criminal organization. Aleksey was sentenced to 12 years in a reinforced regime colony and a fine of approximately €7,800.
Aleksandr Zaytsev
Aliaksandr was detained on August 22, 2021 near the cottage of the chairman of the Supreme Court Sukalo. Aliaksandr was accused of attempted arson of the cottage (part 1 of article 14 and part 2 of article 289 of the Criminal Code Attempt of terrorist act in a group of persons).
According to Belarus ABC’s information, he went there with a provocateur.
Eric G. King, a vegan anarchist, was arrested and charged with an attempted firebombing of a government official’s office in Kansas City, MO in September 2014. Eric was being charged with throwing a hammer through a window of the building, followed by two lit Molotov cocktails. The criminal complaint states that both incendiary devices failed to ignite. Eric took these actions in solidarity with the anti-racist and anti-police uprisings in Ferguson, MO and around the country that year.
Eric was identified as a suspect by local police because he had previously come under suspicion for anti-government and anti-police graffiti. In March 2016, Eric accepted a non-cooperating plea agreement to one count of using “explosive materials to commit arson” and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. His estimated release date is December of 2023.
In 2022 he went to trial for and was acquitted of additional federal charges for assaulting an correctional officer. Throughout his incarceration he has been isolated from his family, had communications frequently restricted, and targeting and tortured for his anti-racist and anarchist positions. He writes poetry, continues to practice yoga, and contributes to the Fire Ant journal. He is maintaining his dedication to struggling for a world free of domination and oppression.
Claudio Lavazza has been finally released yesterday [September 7th, 2024] after having served his sentence! After nearly 28 years locked up in French and Spanish prisons, Claudio can finally walk again on the paths of freedom and embrace all the comrades that have never stopped showing their love and solidarity in all these years. Claudio 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.
Thomas Meyer-Falk
Thomas, a RASH (red and anarchist skin head), was imprisoned since 1996 for robbing a bank to fund political projects and sentenced to almost sixteen years. In in two additional court cases he was sentenced for insult, intimidation, and the threatening of judges and public prosecutors. His sentence is now completed, but he is kept imprisoned indefinitely by a “preventative detention” law because he offensively plead his case instead of “regretting” his actions.
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.
After serving “8.5 years of real prison (13.5 years mixed)” Pola Roupa was released from prison with restrictive conditions on November 17, 2023, and a few days later, on November 28, 2023, the deputy prosecutor of Evia filed an appeal against her release, requesting that she be taken back to prison. This unprecedented event led comrade Pola Roupa before a new judicial council at the court of Chalkida on January 10, 2024, in order to judge from scratch whether she will remain free or continue to be a prisoner in the cells of the republic.
Formerly imprisoned during in Belarus due to the Network Case, he was released in early 2025.
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.
“The struggle rages on, the walls are torn down every day by the ones who choose to storm them. I am Comrade Kado and you will never be forgotten. Together we stand against the tyranny of oppression, repression, the bonds of conformity, and stand for the ones who cannot. My endeavor is toward building upon the strength of our existing connections and through my own efforts (made possible only by the selfless and beautiful supporters) I shall become what we, behind the walls are in much need of – a voice, such a voice and effort, that will paint itself upon the hearts and thoughts of the ones who hear that time or barriers would crumble away to nothing as we rise together in this fight. I’m a poet, artist, activist for human rights, who loves the earth and life and together we can overcome. Together we will succeed in all our efforts. Look and you will find me on the front. Your names upon my lips and your sacrifices, the motivation and drive within…
