‘If We Talk About It, These People Might Survive’: Exhibition of Kremlin’s Political Prisoners Opens in Amsterdam

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
independent voices since invading Ukraine over two years ago
At least 729 people are in Russian prison because of their political beliefs or actions, according to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights
Kara-Murza, human rights activist and wife of the political prisoner Vladimir Kara-MurzaAnastasia Tenisheva / MTOne photo shows Natalya
mobilization for the war in Ukraine in fall 2022.Another story featured in the exhibition is that of Alexandra Skochilenko, an artist from
St
Petersburg who was sentenced to seven years behind bars for replacing price tags at a local supermarket with slips of paper carrying
anti-war statements.Opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, whose photo is also on display at the exhibition, is serving a 25-year prison
constantly, otherwise, public attention shifts to other matters, especially for those living in countries where such [repression] cannot
organization of Russian-speaking residents and citizens of the Netherlands
penitentiary system.Anastasia Tenisheva / MTMany political prisoners are denied the right to communicate with their families, while
blames on Putin, has increased worries for the safety of other Kremlin critics jailed in Russia, particularly Kara-Murza, who survived two
separate poisonings in 2015 and 2017.Kara-Murza was recently transferred to a Siberian penal colony and has repeatedly been isolated in a
punishment cell
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