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Russia: two anarchists sentenced to prison for a banner drop
September 22nd: On 10th September, the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk, Russia, announced the verdict in the case of two anarchists, Anastasia Safonova and Dmitry Tsibukovsky, accused of a banner drop.![](https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lyon-eviction.jpg)
France: Lyon squat evicted in 7am raid
September 17th: After months of threats from oil supergiant TotalEnergies, the abandoned school on Jean Bouin street was cleared out by a huge police operation yesterday, sparking alarm over the use of disproportionate force.
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Notes from the US: Disinformed and dying
September 13th: This month’s missive again concentrates on the worsening situation in the country as a result of resistance and refusal to follow public health guidelines mostly inspired by disinformation and partisan lies in response to the worsening Covid-19 pandemic.
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East German anti-fascist conspiracy trial to start this week
September 6th: In Saxony, East Germany, a state governed by the hard right faction of the conservatives (CDU) since the state rejoined the federal republic again in 1990, for over a year the police have been investigating attacks on Nazis and their structures.
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Russia: two anarchists facing six years in prison for a banner drop
September 2nd: Two young anarchists, Dmitry Tsibukovsky and Anastasia Safonova, are facing six years in prison for (allegedely) hanging a banner in solidarity with the defendants in the “Network” case.
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32 people from Afghanistan are currently imprisoned by armed guards on Poland-Belarus border
August 22nd: In this episode of Freedom’s informal series “The Fuckeries of Poland“, we will discuss the plight of a group of people from Afghanistan currently stuck on the Polish-Belarusian border.
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Do not capitalize on the fate of the Afghan people with dirty policies!: few words from an Afghan anarchist
August 16th: These days, when it comes to the withdrawal of American troops from their country, war threatens all the cities of Afghanistan.
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Notes from the US (August part 1 edition)
August 14th: Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks.
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Moscow court rules to extradite Belarusian anti-fascist despite ECHR ban
August 9th: The First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction upheld the decision to expel 22-year-old anti-fascist from Brest Andrei Kazimirov to Belarus, despite the ban of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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Greece in Flames: Capitalist-made Climate Crisis leaves an increasing number of Climate Refugees
August 7th: These are the images from Euboea (Εύβοια), Greece, where due to raging wildfires hundreds of homes have been burned down and their inhabitants – now climate refugees – were forced to flee to make-shift camps on stadiums.