It is a historic prisoner exchange: Russia and Western states release 26 prisoners. An overview of the most famous prisoners.
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Political prisoners have been disappearing from Russian prisons for days. One example is Ilya Yashin, an opposition politician who was most recently incarcerated in penal camp number three in the Smolensk region. It is unclear where he was taken. As of Tuesday afternoon, human rights activist Oleg Orlov and artist Alexandra Skotschilenko had also been taken from their cells. It is extremely rare for Russian prisoners to be transferred.
US media: Russia releases US reporter Gershkovich in prisoner exchange 14.57
Days later, Moscow released the US reporter Evan Gershkovich, who had been convicted of espionage, and a former US soldier. Was the large prisoner exchange that was finally carried out by the nations involved on Thursday already in the works? Russia released 16 people from custody, five of whom are Germans, according to US President Joe Biden. In return, Western nations released eight prisoners and handed them over to Russia – including apparently the so-called Tiergarten murderer Vadim Krasikow.
Source: Stern
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