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Call for solidarity: another wave of arrests and torture against Russian anarchists

Submitted by Редакция on 4 February, 2019 - 21:32

On February 1, 2019, officers of the FSB, the Russian state security apparatus descended from the KGB, arrested a dozen people in the latest wave of their campaign of repression against accused anarchists throughout the country. After brutally torturing them over the following 24 hours in order to force them to agree to incriminating statements, they released 11 of them.

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