EmilyShawImprisoned Russian Daniel Kholodny is encouraging supporters to send cards and letters to anti-corruption activists in Russian jails. Follow the link below to find out how.
“Many of you must feel jaded about those endless posts by public figures asking you to write to political prisoners. But it really is terribly important. Many of us were on the “front line” of a political struggle — but now, in prison, we find ourselves in single combat with the walls. In this single combat, you can be the “doping drug” that keeps us strong by reminding us that we’re not alone.”
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https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/09/10/why-write-to-prisoners
Why write to prisoners? Alexey Navalny’s co-defendant Daniel Kholodny explains (writing from a penal colony) why letters and postcards are so important to political prisoners in Russia — Meduza
Exactly one year ago, on September 10, 2022, Meduza published a detailed Russian-language instruction on how to send a letter to someone in a Russian prison. Our reason for writing it was the draconian sentence issued, just then, to the Russian journalist Ivan Safronov, prosecuted for treason by the FSB (Russia’s Federal Security Service) and sentenced to 22 years, amidst criticism of the charges and the severity of the court’s decision. At the time, Meduza wrote about 236 Russians prosecuted on political grounds, including antiwar speech. Today, Russia has close to 600 political prisoners (as estimated by the Russian NGO Memorial). One of them is Daniel Kholodny, the former technical director of Alexey Navalny’s YouTube channel Navalny Live, sentenced to eight years in August, in an expressly political case in which both he and Alexey Navalny figured as defendants. In a recent letter from the penal colony, Kholodny explains why letters and postcards from the outside matter so much in the life of a political inmate.