News from Russia, Belarus and France

ELP Information Bulletin (7th of March 2009)

Dear friends

ELP has recently received some excellent news.  The French eco-activist,
Yildune Levy, who was on remand accused of sabotaging railway lines to
protest against the nuclear power industry, has been released from prison
pending her trial.  However as far as we are aware, her co-defendant Julien
Coupat remains in prison.  Therefore please continue to send letters of
support to:

Julien COUPAT
N° d'écrou 290173
42 rue de la santé
75014 Paris
France

Other good news is the Antifa prisoners Vahtang Devitlidze from Russia and
Yuri Yurevich from Belarus have both been released from prison.  Yuri, who
was on remand, apparently received a 1.5 years "public works" sentence after
he was convicted of fighting with a neo-nazi.

And finally, Olga Aleksandrovna Nevskaya, the Russian eco-activist serving 6
years for arson, criminal damage and causing explosions in protest at the
war in Chechnya, has been released from prison.

However, despite the good news, ELP has also been told about a number of new
prisoners who are being added to our Antifa lists.

Russian Antifa activist, Aleksey Bychin, has been remanded for fighting with
neo-nazis.  Whilst Andrei Mergenov has been sentenced to 3 years for a fight
with neo-nazis.

Please send letters of support to:

Aleksey Bychin
SIZO 47/2
ul. Akademika Lebedeva, dom. 39
195005 St. Peterburg
Russia

Andrei Mergenov
FGU IZ 64/1 OKB 2 komn. 73
Up. Kutyakova 107
410601 Saratov
Russia

Finally, ELP has learnt about an Anarchist/Animal Rights activist who has
been jailed for non-animal rights reasons.  Pavel Delidon was indispute with
his employer over some wages which he had not received.  Pavel allegedly
took direct action to try and gather his wages and has subsequently been
jailed, for merely trying to take money owed to him.

Pavel's address is:

Pavel Delidon
ul. Timiryazeva-1
FGU IK-7
309990 Valuyki
Russia

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