"There are alarming reports that the administration is putting a lot of pressure on anarchists - they are regularly placed in SHIZA or PKT.

In addition, with the permission of the administration, provocations are taking place that threaten the lives and health of prisoners," Dissident.by reports.

According to the initiative, letters to Romanov and Emelianov with important information are not missed even from relatives.

"Sergei and Nikita are forced to look for ways to insure their lives.

They are afraid that the tragic fate of Vitold Ashurko will befall them," human rights activists say.

  • In mid-June, anarchist

    Nikita Emelyanov

    was transferred to the Vavakovo colony.

    Since then, he has been repeatedly placed in the SHIZA and deprived of a short-term appointment.

    Human rights center "Viasna" reported that in a recent letter, Nikita wrote that since October 25 he was placed in a cell-type facility (PCT).

    But the next day he was thrown into the SHIZA for 10 days (although the term in the SHIZA is not included in the PKT term)

Political prisoner Nikita Emelyanov

  • On March 11, Emelyanov was sentenced to two years in prison under Part 2 of Art.

    411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of the correctional institution for violation of the rules of the internal procedure), and finally, based on the totality of sentences, taking into account the previously unserved sentence, he was sentenced to 3.5 years in a penal colony of enhanced regime.

    Since August 2021, Nikita was placed in solitary confinement or SHIZA for a total of more than 7 months.

  • The activist of the anarchist movement,

    Sergei Romanov

    , was recently once again placed in the SHIZA for a week by the administration of the Vaukavyi colony, reports the tg channel "Right to Uprising".

    Previously, he was sent to PKT for a month, and he was also deprived of routine transmission and calls.

Sergey Romanov

  • The pressure continues on Romanov's comrades, who were convicted with him in the same case.

    Yes, Ihar Alinevich

    , who was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment

    , was repeatedly placed in the SHIZA .

    On August 11, the regime was tightened and he was transferred from the Mazyr colony to prison No. 8 in Zhodzin.

    Later he announced a hunger strike.

    Anarchist

    Dmitriy Dubovskyi

    , who was recently tried again (this time for the events in Minsk and Salihorsk in 2009-2010), is also being persecuted.

    Since last year Dubouski was already sentenced to 18 years in a penal colony, by way of partial addition of sentences, he was finally sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of enhanced regime).

    The other day, Dubovsky was transferred to the Vitebsk pre-trial detention center pending the appeal.

    During his stay in prison, Dubovsky also announced a hunger strike.