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eugen-b
I’d like to start a thread where we can share news about political prisoners who got released. Add your people about whom you want to tell others!
Alexander Kolchenko – in prison: May 2014 – Sept. 2019, a left-wing activist from Crimea, got free in a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine. I wish him and other former prisoners a quick recovery from all the stress and I’m looking forward to hearing good news about them!
https://youtu.be/Gr3Lq8LgAVI?t=337
(At time 5:37)
Reporter: Will you come back to Crimea?
Kolchenko: When Putin gets toppled, definitely.The man at the beginning of the video is Vladimir Balukh, a political activist who raised the Ukrainian flag on his farm in Crimea.
(Don’t buy mass media noise about “a step towards peace”, Russia got a witness (and possibly an accomplice) of the takedown of MH17 in exchange and that’s the only reason why the swap happened IMHO.)
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VW
Can we mention those who are still locked up, like Chelsea Manning, for example?
And I’d personally like to remember a friend from Clarksdale who served 6 months for daring to protest at Fort Benning with School of the Americas Watch.
And of course, there is Julian Assange
The World’s Most Important Political Prisoner
- This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by VW.
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