The material, filmed by the last three journalists in the besieged city before it fell to Russia, was integral to international support for Ukraine, according to one of its subjects. The film, which documents Russia's invasion of Mariupol, was greeted by tears, hugs and multiple standing ovations in a packed Kyiv cinema yesterday.Ģ0 Days in Mariupol shows the horrors of the Russian onslaught in the southeastern port city in March 2022, including the final moments of toddlers, infants and expectant mothers. Pro-democracy group leader Andrei Pivovarov, 41, is in isolation at Penal Colony Seven, as part of a four-year sentence for "undesirable" organisation.Īlexei Gorinov, 61, a member of a Moscow municipal council who criticised the war, is serving seven years in Penal Colony Two for "spreading false information".Īrtist and musician Sasha Skochilenko, 32, has been detained for a year while on trial on suspicion of spreading false information by replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans and faces up to 10 years if convicted. Memorial, Russia's oldest human rights organization, counted 558 political prisoners as of April - more than three times the 183 listed five years ago. Mr Navalny is Russia's most famous political prisoner, but there are a growing number of them serving time in similarly harsh conditions. He is on trial facing further charges which could add decades to his sentence. The critic of the president is serving a nine-year term in a penal colony east of Moscow on charges widely seen as trumped up. He is more likely to be forced to listen to patriotic songs and speeches by Vladimir Putin in his 2-by-3-meter isolation cell. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is spending his 47th birthday in a concrete cell with hardly any natural light, barred from talking to any of his loved ones.
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