Imprisoned

Hridindu Roychowdhury

Hridindu Roychowdhury is an anarchist from Madison, Wisconcin who was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for attacking a building with a Molotov cocktail in the wake of the leak of the draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overruling Roe v. Wade.

Brian (Peppy) DiPippa

Background
In the early hours of May 19th, 2023, heavily-armed agents raided the home of two Pittsburgh community members, Brian “Peppy” DiPippa and Krystal DiPippa. Nearly a month and a half later, they were both federally indicted, and on June 30th,2023, they surrendered to the court. 

Ross Smith

Solidarity with Ross Smith imprisoned in UK

Ross Smith is imprisoned in the long-term high security prison HMP Garth for possession of a Skorpion submachine gun and a hand grenade. By the time Ross gets out he will have done 22 years in prison. Ross would like to hear from you and receive postcards, letters and books. He is part of the counter-culture and likes anarchist ideas, anti-art/Dada, sound-systems, nihilism, ecology and the natural world. Ross likes training and is into fitness. Ross is from North Wales. This is how he described himself:

Stuart Bretherton

Stu is serving a 12 month sentence. He is an organiser, and for 5 years, he’s been involved in all kinds of campaigning from climate justice, to refugee rights, to Palestinian solidarity. His partner is currently expecting their first child.

This is a quote from Stuart, inspired by Nelson Mandela and Fred Hampton: 

Calum Lacy

Calum is serving a 12 month sentence. He is originally from San Francisco, and before his arrest, he lived in Edinburgh for four years, where he began his activist career by campaigning on behalf of the staff and students of Edinburgh University. From prison, he says that he doesn’t regret his action, and remains a proud part of the global intifada. 

Aliaksandr Kazlianka (Aleksandr Kozlyanko)

On March 2, 2021 in Brest, a number of activists and young people, who were probably on the list of Main Department for Combating Organized Crime as politically unreliable, were detained. During the week Aleksandr Kozlyanko, Andrey Marach, Pavel Shpetny, Nikita Dranets, Daniil Chul’, Aleksey Golovko were detained.

Each of the detainees was charged with gross violation of order (Art. 342) and participation in an international criminal organisation (Art. 285.2).

Ishaq Aslam

Ishaq is a Palestine Actionist was sentenced to 14 months for holding Israeli weapons manufacturer, Rafael, to account by planning a rooftop protest on the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. Due to this actrion, the factory lost almost £300,000 and loss of production time on top of that due to its forced closure for two days.

Marwan Barghouti

Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti was born in the West Bank village of Kobar in 1962. He is a prominent and popular political figure associated with Fatah, currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison. He is a member of the Fatah Central Committee, and of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Often described by Palestinians as the ‘Palestinian Mandela.’

Nael Al-Barghouti

Nael, fron the town of Kober in Ramallah, is the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner. He is serving a life sentence and an additional 18 years after he was first arrested by Israeli forces on April 4, 1978 for engaging in attacks against the Israeli military. He was released 34 years later in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal with Hamas. However, he was rearrested in 2014 and his sentence reinstated following “secret claims” made against him.

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