Sixteen-year-old Russian political prisoner placed in punishment cell for a week

I live in constant fear for the life of my child, and feel completely helpless,

says Nadezhda, the mother of political prisoner Platon

I’ve learnt to ignore it,

Nadezhda says

It’s very difficult when you live with the belief that common sense will prevail, and it doesn’t,

says Nadezhda

Will I ever be able to forgive these people? I won’t,

Nadezhda says

I get up early and think about how my son is doing in there,

she says

I ask what food to order for him, how things are at school, how he feels. He answers, and then asks me how the elections went in Moldova, and what’s happening in the US. He always asks me to look at the news and tell him what’s going on,

she says

Stop killing. Let’s stop the war.”

Photos from the courtroom, published by Mediazona, showed a weary Gorinov in the defendant’s cage, holding a hand-written placard saying

I am far from the ideology of terrorism,

Gorinov was quoted as saying

I was imprisoned for seven years only for speaking out... about the fact that civilians are suffering and children are dying during the war,

Gorinov said

Ilya Yashinopposition politician

Behind him are almost three years of prison cells and prison transfers, constant pressure and ruined health,

Yashin wrote on Telegram

I have nothing to do with your terrorism and never have in my entire life,

he told the court

The killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and qualifies as a serious international crime,

it read

Today, during the meeting, the representative of the Russian Federation was told that if the Russian leadership and country’s law enforcement agencies did not take action to investigate and prevent these crimes, they would be considered complicit in these crimes,

Lithuania informed