The Institute of Modern Russia begins a series of publications on Russia’s political prisoners. The list of political prisoners designated by Memorial Human Rights Center on the basis of international human rights criteria has been published on the IMR website. In an interview with IMR Advisor Boris Bruk, Alexander Cherkasov, the chairman of Memorial, explains who should be considered a political prisoner and why.
The list of persons recognized as political prisoners by Russia’s Memorial Human Rights Center on the basis of international human rights criteria was first published on October 30, 2013. It is published here as it stands on January 22, 2014, with the latest additions.
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