Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky! Solidarity is Stronger than Repression! – Solidarity (solidarity-us.org)
BORIS KAGARLITSKY*, RUSSIAN Marxist writer-activist, had an unexpected “appeal” trial on February 13, 2024. Prosecutors were seeking to overturn the results of his two-day trial in December 2023, when Kagarlitsky was released with a fine after serving 4.5 months in pre-trial detention in the Komi Republic, 800 km north of Moscow. He was facing 5.5-7 years imprisonment on a charge of “justifying terrorism,” but instead was released with a fine of 609,000 rubles, about $6500. The charge was absurd on its face, but part of a generalized attack on the Russian Left movement as a whole, Kagarlitsky’s Rabkor media outlet in particular, and served as a warning for anti-war and anti-regime critics that breaking silence on the war would have dire consequences. Indeed, there are 15,000 people who have been arrested for opposing the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29035): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29035 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104495005/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
