Biography
Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 30, of Madison WI, was arrested March 28, 2023 for the May 8, 2022 arson attack on Wisconsin Family Action, a Madison crisis pregnancy center, using mason-jar Molotovs. Spray-painted If abortions arent safe then you arent either and a circle-A with 1312 outside the building. Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 90 months federal prison. Hridindu Roychowdhury is an anarchist and former PhD student who in May 2022 — in the days following the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization, which would overturn Roe v. Wade — set fire to the Madison, Wisconsin headquarters of Wisconsin Family Action, an anti-abortion lobbying group. Care was taken that no one was inside, and the only injuries were to the building. The graffiti left at the scene read: IF ABORTIONS ARENT SAFE, THEN YOU ARENT EITHER.
The FBI built its case against him by recovering DNA from a discarded burrito he had thrown out near the scene. He was indicted on federal arson and use-of-fire charges. In a non-cooperating plea agreement he pleaded guilty and accepted responsibility, and was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison. He is held at FCI Thomson, Illinois, federal inmate number 51111-510. The Anarchist Black Cross Federation lists him among its current anarchist movement political prisoners.
The National Jericho Movement’s June–July 2025 newsletter reported that Hridindu Roychowdhury was being held in Columbia County Jail, Wisconsin, in federal civil contempt for refusing to answer a grand jury’s questions. The account said he had been transferred from federal prison in 2025 and that time toward his original federal sentence was suspended while the contempt confinement continued. The report does not establish the exact transfer, contempt-admission or eventual release date.
The Dragons Fire, National Jericho Movement newsletter, June15–July15,2025,vol.87, PDF page 35.
