Forgotten?

Jun 7 2022 The Washington Post

Vladimir Kara-Murza from jail: The worst nightmare for political prisoners

Sep 16 2018 The Hill

For the sake of human rights, we must stand for the nameless by Irwin Cotler

“The prisoner’s worst nightmare is the thought of being forgotten.”

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A quote from Vladimir Kara-Murza

“According to the (almost certainly incomplete) count by the Memorial Human Rights Center, there are hundreds of prisoners of conscience in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. People such as Alexei Navalny, Andrei Pivovarov, Lilia Chanysheva, Alexei Pichugin, Yuri Dmitriev, Pavel Zelensky and many, many others — whose only “crime” is to hold political or religious beliefs unwelcome in the Kremlin.”

“Please remember them. Please speak out on their behalf. Please advocate their release — which will come, I have no doubt.”

“Because the worst nightmare for a political prisoner is to be forgotten.”