Activists of the Sverdlovsk region branch of the YABLOKO
party conducted an action Putin, look, here are political
prisoners on Friday, February 10. The activists held a many
meters banner in front of the Representation of the President
in Ekaterinburg. The banner contained names of political prisoners
from the list handed to the current President Dmitry Medvedev.
The action represents a reaction of Vladimir Putins statement
during his meeting with political scientists when he asked
them to show him at least one political prisoner.
According to YABLOKO activists, the people from the list
were convicted with the help of falsified evidence, the actual
reason for putting them into prison were their political activities.
Maxim Petlin, leader of the Sverdlovsk branch of YABLOKO,
kept in the pre-trial detention prison now is also in the
list of such political prisoners.
Photo: Freedom to Maxim Petlin!
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Human
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Presidential
Elections 2012
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