Ex political prisoner Liliya #Chanysheva's first message post exchange.

Liliya is an experienced activist and a remarkably courageous and principled politician. She represents the hope for a better future for Russia—so glad she is not broken and will continue her important work. https://twitter.com/novayagazeta_en/status/1820795294390321663?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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❤️Liliya Chanysheva, who once ran the late Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny’s headquarters in the Volga region city of Ufa, spoke out on Tuesday for the first time after she was freed in the largest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West since the Cold War.⤵️

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Indeed, where’s our all-female press-conference of the released political prisoners, featuring #Skochilenko, #Chanysheva, and #Fadeeva? https://twitter.com/nadyariot/status/1819627757019844804?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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пап, а можно теперь женскую пресс-конференцию еще, Скочиленко, Чанышева, Фадеева

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Liliya #Chanysheva - former head of late opposition leader Aleksei #Navalny 's team in Ufa, #Bashkortostan - sentenced to nearly 10 ys for 'creating an extremist community, inciting extremism, and establishing an organisation that violated citizens' rights' (after Navalny's FBK was declared an extremist organisation) her husband's campaign for her release was heartbreaking....

Her article after the re-sentencing: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/29/give-me-a-chance-to-be-a-mother-a81319

Give Me a Chance To Be a Mother

Opinion | Lilia Chanysheva, the former leader of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in Russia’s republic of Bashkortostan, gave the following address to court on Monday.

The Moscow Times

by the look of it many of the political prisoners in Russia you could often read about here are free - Novaya Gazeta has a list of some of the names not yet confirmed: Oleg #Orlov , Andrey #Pivovarov , Sasha #Skochilenko , Liliya #Chanysheva , Ksenia #Fadeyeva

And here is a bit if background on them:

Oleg Orlov, one of the leaders of Nobel Prize laureate human rights defender organisation Memorial - he is mentioned in this episode of #TheGlobalJigsaw https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fy6m49

BBC World Service - The Global Jigsaw, Putin’s media marathon

The gradual dismantling of independent media in Russia

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#Krasikov is indeed going home.

But ahat a relief: @evangershkovich, @vkaramurza, @IlyaYashin, @brewerov, Oleg Orlov (@MemorialMoscow), Lilia #Chanysheva, Alsu #Kurmasheva, Alexandra #Skochilenko and others will be safe.

Full list & profiles @the_ins_ru https://theins.ru/en/news/273542?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Russia exchanges spies for political prisoners: Gershkovich, Kara-Murza, Whelan, Yashin, Kurmasheva, Chanys...

Russia has completed a prisoner exchange with the U.S. and Germany. According to data available to The Insider, the released political prisoners include Evan Gershkovich, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Paul Whelan, Ilya Yashin, Alsu Kurmasheva, Andrei Pivovarov, Oleg Orlov, Alexandra Skochilenko, Lilia Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeeva, Rico Krieger, Kevin Lik, Demuri Voronin, Vadim Ostanin, Patrick Schobel, and Herman Moyzhes. In return, Russia has received FSB operative Vadim Krasikov, along with multiple spies and fraudsters.

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Disappearance of high-profile political prisoners in Russia's penitentiary system is a pattern. #Navalny was made disappear before he was murdered. #KaraMurza vanished for a week to resurface in a hospital. Now it's #Chanysheva. The regime thus signals full control over its foes. https://twitter.com/novayagazeta_en/status/1817863369589666170?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Lilia Chanysheva, the imprisoned former head of late Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny’s headquarters in the Volga region city of Ufa, has disappeared from the penal colony where she had been serving a nine-and-a-half year sentence, her husband said on Monday. ⤵️

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#Navalny was buried last Friday. But the crackdown on his team and supporters - even those already in prison - continues unabated.

Lilia #Chanysheva (Ufa), one of the many victims of political persecution as a crime against humanity in Russia, is now facing a longer sentence. https://twitter.com/novayagazeta_en/status/1764612322868244511?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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Prosecutors move to extend prison sentence for Navalny ally Lilia Chanysheva from 7.5 to 10 years 🔗: https://t.co/F1tPf6CFs2 📷: Navalny’s team

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