So is his name Yuri or Yura? Or can that be used interchangeably in Russia?
this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
38 points (97.5% liked)
Anarchist Black Cross
146 readers
1 users here now
"You’re in there for us, we’re out here for you."
News about incarcerated anarchists. Resources for prisoner support.
Prisoner Support and Solidarity
Post news about individual incarcerated people by including an all-caps tag of the [three-letter country code] at the start of the post and the person's name in bold somewhere in the title to make searching the community easier.
Its a good idea to include information about what organizations are sponsoring them, what forms of solidarity they've requested, and how to send them mail.
There's a prisoner database at Prisoner Solidarity and a list from Solidarity International that are useful for looking up people to correspond with.
Zines
Posts about zines and prison literature to share with friends or mail to prisoners should begin with the tag [Zine], and should link to a page with literature in printable document format or the PDF file itself.
Posts using the tag [Info] are reserved for moderators.
Also on Lemmy
News about prisoner support groups should be posted in !anarchism@slrpnk.net
For non-prisoner specific organizing and abolition see !abolition@slrpnk.net
Polish anarchist prisoner solidarity news: !ack@szmer.info
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Yuri is formal, Yura is a diminutive/familiar form of the same name - for friends and family. They're interchangeable.
It's sad that they got caught. Never plan delicate things over the phone, especially in a repressive country on war footing (I think that in Russia they record absolutely every phone call, down to the last consonant). Apps aren't safe if the device isn't safe, so apps aren't for planning either - they're for chat and establishing initial contact before switching to a more secure method, or following the activity of publicly known folks who presumably take great care.
I've never lived in such a country, but regardless, when I still was a bad anarchist (TM), I left my phone home when going to meetings, and a friendly organizer went around with a bucket before any talk occurred - to gather the phones of those who carried them, and take them to another room.