More than 10 Russians and Ukrainians have fallen victim to political repression in Russia.
The figure was announced yesterday at the conference “Country and World: Russian Realities 2024on Berlin... Data presented head of the independent human rights project "Support for political prisoners "Memorial"» Sergei Davidis.
Human rights activists have identified political motives and illegality of prosecution in the criminal cases. 3,664 prisoners.
Minimum 7 thousands people - civilian Ukrainians abducted in the occupied territories Ukraine and became prisoners in of Russia.
Hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held in torture-like conditions in Russia. Human rights activists they say, that the average weight of prisoners in places of detention is 40 kilograms.
Another group of those repressed are Russian military personnel evading military service. Their numbers are extremely difficult to calculate. It is known that by the end of March, 8 thousands sentences for abandoning a unit and 250 — for desertion. Some of the convicts were sent to war, the rest were in prison colonies.
«This conveyor belt of repression is, of course, aimed at controlling society and the occupied territories.“,” Davidis explained.
The other day Davidis have made He was added to the list of people the Russian government considers terrorists and extremists, with the notation "involved in terrorism." Memorial doesn't know the basis for this, but they believe a criminal case may have been opened against Davidis. However, nothing is known about this either.