Pavlov has been temporarily released, but has been stripped of his right to defend political prisoners, and may soon become one. The Wilson Center strongly condemns the detention of the Russian lawyer and human rights defender Ivan Pavlov on April 30 and the subsequent raid on his offices. Mr. Pavlov has been a stalwart defender of human rights and the rule of law in Russia for decades. He is a ... Continue Reading>>
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The historic achievement of the Soviet human rights movement of the 1970's is that it managed to turn the attention of the world’s Big Politics to the suffering of individuals. The role of Andrei Sakharov was crucial in this. It was not by chance that in his Nobel Lecture (1975) he listed 127 names of Soviet prisoners of conscience and apologized to those he missed. And surely the pain for every ... Continue Reading>>
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