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Iranian anarchist prisoner Soheil Arabi severely beaten by prison guards

May 8th: Anarchist political prisoner Soheil Arabi, who is detained in Fashafoyeh (the Greater Tehran Prison), was sent to Firoozabadi Hospital after being�…

Deliberate Denial of Food in Hungarian Detention Centres

May 6th: The UN Human Rights Office (UNHRO) has reported that people detained in Hungarian detention centers have been deliberately deprived of food if thei…

Paris: anarchist bookshop attacked

May 3rd: Librairie Publico, the anarchist bookshop in Paris run by the French Anarchist Federation, had been attacked.

Morocco: at least 16 refugee people die in truck accident

April 30th: Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar or the western Mediterranean in unstable boats is something that comes at the end of a painful and traumatic journ…

Russia: anarchist Yevgeny Karakashev sentenced to 6 years in prison

April 22nd: The North Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov sentenced an anarchist Yevgeny Karakashev to 6 years in a penal colony and two-year internet …

Notes from the US

April 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 las…

Russia: “The Network” trial begins

April 11th: Amid presence the courtroom of riot police, regular police, court bailiffs and supporters, the trial in the case of the Network begun in St.

Warsaw: students successfully block fascist demo

April 8th: Warsaw University students had successfully blocked a fascist demo held at the gates of the university last Saturday.

Italy: Riace major cleared of ‘aiding and abetting illegal immigration’

April 4th: The court of Reggio Calabria ruled that the mayor of Riace in Calabria region in Italy Domenico Mimmo Lucano is not guilty of scams, robberies, and…

Iceland: police use teargas against refugee rights protest

March 12th: The police in Iceland have used teargas and reacted rather violently on Monday when asylum seekers protested wanting to draw attention to the inhum…

Russia: court extends arrest order against anarchist Azat Miftakhov

March 5th: The Golovinsky Court of Moscow has extended until 7th April the pre-trial detention of Moscow State University student Azat Miftakhov.

Russia: Slaver killed during uprising

February 25th: Reports from the village of Vanzezat, Beloyarsky District say the “local businessman” was shot dead by one of the people he had illegal…

Germany: State tries to block university anarchist groups

February 24th: Federal security agency the BfV was caught recently making a bizarre intervention at Leipzig University to demand anarcho-syndicalist union branch …

Notes from the US: Anti-Semitism enshrined in law

February 17th: In perhaps Trump’s more startling act of discrimination yet, it was announced recently that it will now be legal for adoption agencies to ref…

Russia: Tortured anarchist detained again for ‘hooliganism’

February 13th: A Moscow court yesterday denied bail to Azat Miftakhov on the charge, which has seemingly been brought because the State was unable to justify earl…