Russian prisoner of conscience: Amnesty letters were ‘connection to freedom’

Saturday 4 December 2010 Sent to an Arctic penal colony for a crime he didn’t commit, Russian prisoner of conscience Igor Sutyagin lived for a few minutes in “the free world” with every postcard he received from supporters during his eleven years in jail. Sent to an Arctic penal colony for a crime he didn’t commit, Russian prisoner of conscience Igor Sutyagin lived for a few minutes in “the free world” with every postcard he received from supporters during his eleven years in jail. In October 1999, expecting a taxi to the airport, Sutyagin instead found on his doorstep seven members…

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