Three new Russian laws, recently signed into force by Russian President Vladimir Putin, will make imprisonment for the ever-mounting number of Crimean and other Ukrainian political prisoners convicted of so-called ‘extremism’ or ‘terrorism’ even harsher. The conditions that the men are held in now are already equivalent to torture and are in several cases putting their lives in danger.
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Halya Coynash: Russia increases torture conditions for Ukrainian political prisoners
Ukrainian journalist and political prisoner Roman Sushchenko, whom Russia sentenced to 12 years in prison on espionage charges in June 2018, stands inside the defendant's cage during a hearing in a Moscow court on Nov. 28, 2016.
