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Hunger strike of Ihar Alinevich: What is known now
October 10th: Ihar Alinevich , an anarcho-partisan sentenced to 20 years for participating in the Belarusian uprising, went on hunger strike.![Call for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners 2022 Call for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners 2022](https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/freedom-scaled-1-1600x2190-1.jpg)
Call for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners 2022
August 23rd: Below, Freedom reproduce invitation to join International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, which is organized every year between 23-30 August.
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Belarus: Anarchist Prisoners
August 28th: As part of the ongoing International Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners, a correspondent rounds up the four main cases of anarchists who have been detained by the Lukashenko dictatorship.
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France: Prison overcrowding during heatwave sparks hunger strikes
August 14th: After an astonishing decision to crush excessive numbers of prisoners into migrant detention centre CRA Vincennes left people living four to a cell, inmates have lost patience with the situation.
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“We are invisible”: The experiences of women in the criminal justice system
July 16th: The Black Lives Matter campaign in the USA and UK has brought the abominable treatment of black men in the criminal justice system into focus.
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Call for International Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners 2020
July 9th: A number of Anarchist Black Cross groups have called for a week of action and support for anarchist prisoners worldwide, starting on Monday.
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‘This place is a death trap’: inside HMPs during COVID-19
April 29th: Content warnings: state violence, medical abuse and neglect, self-harm and suicide The Ministry of Justice’s lack of response to COVID-19 is nothing short of genocidal.
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Italy: On conditions in Mammagialla Prison
April 28th: A prisoner at the jail in Viterbo, north-west of Rome, whistleblows on laughable “protections” which were put in place at the heavily overcrowded facility when a 50-year-old officer tested positive for Covid-19.
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Quarantine vs. overcrowding – what’s going on in Italian prisons
March 25th: Riots exploded in about 30 Italian prisons 2 weeks ago in the biggest uprising since the 70s.
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“I’ve never felt more trapped and powerless in my life” – Letter lays bare the cruel realities of prison during the pandemic
March 24th: The following letter from ‘D’ – passed to us by Carl Cattermole and Lisa & Elliot of @bluebaglife – lays bare the horrific conditions being endured by prisoners during the Covid-19 pandemic.