In the July/August edition of Amnesty International’s Wire global magazine (Vol. 42, Issue 004), there is a call to all members of the human rights organization to send Tweets to President Vladimir Putin on the unfair, politically motivated detention of prisoners of conscience Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.

Prisoners of conscience
Send a tweet for Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of Russian oil company YUKOS, is still imprisoned in Karelia, northern Russia. He is an outspoken social commentator and an advocate for a strong Russian civil society. Amnesty International considers him and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, to be prisoners of conscience and believes that their persecution is politically motivated. Please tweet President Vladimir Putin @KremlinRussia to say Khodorkovsky and lebedev’s trial was unfair #FreeKhodorkovskyandlebedev