Russia’s Political Prisoners

April 3, 2014

A list of political prisoners in Russia compiled by Memorial—Russia’s most respected human rights organisation, founded a quarter-century ago by Andrei Sakharov, was first published on October 30, 2013. An updated version was recently published by The Institute of Modern Russia and can be viewed here.
The Institute of Modern Russia also launched a project entitled Russia’s Political Prisoners, which is a series of publications on individual stories of 41 remaining political prisoners in Russia. The stories of three of them can be read below: