Jan-29-2020

During a side event at the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France), Vladimir Kara-Murza of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation and Sergey Davidis of the Memorial Human Rights Center brief members of PACE on the growing crisis with politically motivated imprisonment in the Russian Federation. They discuss both the overall scope of the issue, and the plight of several individuals, including Alexey Pichugin, Russia’s longest-serving political prisoner.