Russian dissident in jail found ‘many unknown’ political convicts

October 21, 2024 admin

As he was transferred through various jails of Russia’s vast prison system, Oleg Orlov had a mission: to find out how many political prisoners there were in each facility. The veteran dissident, freed in August in the biggest Russia-West prisoner swap since the Cold War, knew the lists. His Nobel Prize-winning rights organisation Memorial has…

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