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Former political prisoner Vladimir Akimenkov and anti-war activist Elena Zaharova argue that the harsh verdict in the Network trial in Penza should be seen not as exceptional but as consistent with the brutal treatment meted out by the Putin regime to other "terrorists" and "extremists" in Russia, including Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Khimki Forest defenders, and Hizb ut-Tahrir, and such "incorrect" political prisoners as the Primorsky Partisans, the NBP, and Boris Stomakhin. Like the Kremlin's war against Syrians, the vast majority of Russians either have ignored these other recent or ongoing crackdowns or really know nothing about them, just as, until literally the other day, they showed no concern about the tortured antifascists in the Network Case, a case that began in October 2017. https://therussianreader.com/2020/02/12/network-case-akimenkov-zaharova/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
