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Hace 5 días · Navalny, the fiercest political foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in February in an Arctic penal colony while serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges that he had condemned as politically motivated. Authorities said he became ill after a walk but have otherwise given no details on Navalny’s death.
Hace 3 días · The Russian penal system, despite reforms and a reduction in prison population, informally or formally continues many practices endemic to the Gulag system, including forced labor, inmates policing inmates, and prisoner intimidation.
Hace 5 días · Within weeks, he was sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony. Russian prison officials claimed that Navalny had failed to report to them during his hospitalization in Germany, and this constituted a violation of the terms of his 2014 suspended sentence.
Hace 5 días · 12 Jul 2024. A Russian-installed court in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region has jailed an official from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission for ...
Hace 1 día · British-Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza is desperate to return to his ‘punishment cell’ only a few metres long and wide, with his wife Evgenia deeply concerned about what will happen to him.
Hace 1 día · Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony” (1914) George Orwell, 1984 (1949) Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange (1971) Torture in Postcolonial and Transitional Justice Contexts. J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980b) Sexual Violence as Torture; State, Torture, and Representation Post 9/11. Representations of Exceptional Acts and States ...
Hace 7 horas · Most anti-war political prisoners are tortured and subject to severe conditions in the penal colonies. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of “sudden death syndrome” in an Arctic penal colony. Similar concerns apply to Kagarlitsy, who is subject to sharing overcrowded cells in a penal colony at the age of 65.
