Mustafa Dzhemilev: “For political prisoners, things are worse now than during the Soviet Union”

18 December 2018

Mustafa Dzhemilev: “For political prisoners, things are worse now than during the Soviet Union”

“During the Soviet Union, the authorities were afraid of bad publicity. But now they’ve got nothing to lose.”Read the full article

“During the Soviet Union, the authorities were afraid of bad publicity. But now they’ve got nothing to lose.”Read the full article

By Natalie Gryvnyak

Keywords

, Discrimination, Armed conflict, Democracy, Detention, History, Repression

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