Journalists, Nobel laureates, Russian Dmitry Muratov and Filipina Maria Rezawho were awarded in 2021 Nobel Prizewith their open letter to International Committee of the Red Crossasking her to intervene to help a Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny who does not receive the necessary medical care in the prisons where he is held.

“You can’t feel like a person when political prisoners are being tortured next to them, in prisons and camps,” Muratov and Ressa write in their open letter, released today.

In their letter, they point out that a Russian politician serving a sentence in Russian prisons is being punished “for any reason” and is also not receiving the necessary treatment.

“Act as your own universal humanitarian principle dictates: “Prevention of human suffering”” is the call of two journalists to this humanitarian organization, which has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times. “Use your right. As long as the torture continues, we all become accomplices of the torturers,” Muratov and Ressa emphasize in their letter.

The day before, one of them was made public. an open letter from lawyers in favor of the leader of the Russian opposition.

This is a letter signed 103 peoplewas personally sent to the President of Russia Vladimir PutinThe initiator of the appeal told DW about this.

Comrades of the Russian opposition politician, on the second anniversary of his return to Russia after poisoning with a nerve agent and hospitalization in Berlin, launched an action of solidarity with Navalny and other political prisoners in Russia.

Today at Berlina copy of the ShIZO was presented in front of the Russian embassy, ​​in which politician Alexei Navalny spent more than a hundred days while serving his sentence in colony-settlement No. 11. 6 in the Vladimir region.

This symbolic statue of the camera was inaugurated by the brother of the leader of the opposition, Oleg Navalny and his partner Leonid Volkovaccording to her correspondent New newspaper Europe. In his opening remarks, Volkov said that other European countries after Germany would temporarily install an imitation isolation ward.

This cell is part of a larger campaign #Free bulkwhich our team has been holding for two years now. On the second anniversary of his arrest, we decided to make him more visible and international,” Volkov said.

The concrete cell has a very small space, its area does not exceed two by three square meters. It has a bed with a mattress that rests on the wall with a lever, a sink and a “basin” of the floor.

The window is too small and the bars are too thick. About 100 Berliners attended the opening of the symbolic statue. Many brought with them posters with photos of Navalny calling for his release, and also held Ukrainian flags.

Source: DW, Novaya Gazeta Europe.