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'Prisoners of conscience': A look at some of the biggest names on the list 8 Commemorating Boris Nemtsov in Vilnius. / J. Stacevičiaus/LRT nuotr. Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny's time as an Amnesty International "prisoner of conscience" was short-lived – but not because he was released from detention. Navalny received the designation on January 17 following his arrest at a Moscow airport by Russian authorities who said he had violated the terms of a suspended sentence stemming from a 2014 embezzlement conviction. Navalny and his supporters say that both the conviction and the...

Feb 6, 2021 Moscow – While doing time in a Russian penal colony, Alexander Y. Margolin saw prisoners savagely beat another inmate, and from that point on, the beaten man obediently cleaned the toilet every day, a demeaning chore signaling that he had fallen into a low caste in the prison hierarchy, known as the “degraded.” “The conditions are not very homey,” Margolin said of Russia’s prison camps, descendants of the Soviet gulag, many of them scattered across Siberia. Inmates are housed not in cell blocks but in free-standing, rough wood or brick barracks, dozens of men ...

By Published Dec. 16, 2020. Updated Dec. 16 2020 at 10:39 am Activists hold a poster that reads "Free political prisoners" during a rally in Kyiv on Oct. 10, 2020. Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin Activists from the civic movement #LiberateCrimea are calling on Ukrainian MPs to take individual Kremlin hostages under their care, with the initiative strongly supported by former political prisoners like Oleg Sentsov and Edem Bekirov. Although #LiberateCrimea are specifically addressing Ukraine’s ...