Materials of Round Table on Political Prisoners in Russia
On February, 17th, a round table «Political prisoners in modern
Russia. Issues and approaches» took place in «Memorial». Speakers
were Oleg Orlov (HRC «Memorial»), Sergey Davidis (HRC «Memorial»,
Union of solidarity with political prisoners), Friederike
Behr («Amnesty International»), Natalia Kholmogorova («Russian
Social Movement»), Alexander Cherkasov (HRC «Memorial»), Zoya
Svetova («The New Times»). Some participants as Valeriy Borschev,
Valentin Gefter, Alexander Verkhovskiy, Vera Vasilieva, Sergey
Kovalev, Alexandre Daniel, Maksim Gromov and others took part in
discussions.
We call your attention to the full texts and video of speeches of
round table (in Russian):
http://www.memo.ru/2012/03/14/1403121.html
English version will be presented soon.
March 16, 2012