Money is political prisoner

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Alexei Navalny created a joint project for supporting political prisoners

The essence of the new project of well -known oppositionists is to provide one -time help to those whom experts involved in work recognize as political prisoners. Everyone will receive assistance in the amount of 100 thousand rubles. Of the personal funds of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and several anonymous donors.

Initially, both authors of the project were proposed by four experts, who then recommended other members. In total, the Council has 24 people, among them - famous human rights activists, journalists and lawyers: Lyudmila Alekseeva, Zoya Svetova, Vadim Kluvgant and others. Experts studied the materials of the affairs, talked with lawyers and relatives, after which they chose in the vote in need of help - both those who are currently in conclusion and were released.

The authors of the project did not explain how often the experts will vote in the future to determine those who need help. In a comment by NT, the head of the support program for the political prisoner of the Memorial human rights center and one of the project experts Sergei Davidis suggested that the next vote would most likely be held in September of this year.

Help for families is primarily planned to help the families of political zones, the human rights activist and journalist Zoya Svetova noted in the NT commentary. "Any trip (

In the colony to political prisoners. - NT ) It costs tens of thousands of rubles. In addition, they bring large gears - products, clothes. And the political prisoners or old parents, or wives with young children, many families were left without breadwinners. ”

According to the Memorial human rights center, in Russia now 49 people who are persecuted for political reasons, but this list is notolon, said NT Sergey Davidis. "I would estimate their number at about 100 people." He explains the fact that the most famous political prisoners are chosen by the fact that their surnames are “by ear”. "These are socially significant and blatantly unfair persecution."

The prisoners are more and more according to the plan of the authors of the project, the next time funds will be collected by crowdfunding. However, Sergey Davidis noted that he "did not have the impression that from the funds of Mikhail Borisovich and donors who supported this time, there would be no more assistance." Just on crowdfunding will be emphasized, Davidis emphasized. The collection of funds does not represent much complexity - the opposition, according to him, has already been collected on the same Kostroma election campaign of the opposition.

It is impossible to talk about a strong fall in the support of political prisoners from society, said Sergey Davidis. The number of donations through the Union of Solidarity with the political prisoners, the coordinator of which he is, even increased. In addition, there are tens of convicts for political reasons in Russia, perhaps hundreds, but not thousands, he notes, so it is easier to collect help to them. However, recently, more and more things have been political in color - in particular, Zoya Svetova believes that the accused in the “high -rise case” of Beisjampers can “replenish the list of political prisoners”.

As a result of the past vote, the Crimean director Oleg Sentsov and anti -fascist Alexander Kolchenko, the Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko, convicted in the “swamp business” Denis Lutskievich, Alexei Polikhovich, Ilya Gushchin, Andrey Zimin, Alexander Margolin, Ivan Nepomnyashchi and Alexei Gaskarov, and Alexei Gaskarov; The leader of the “Left Front” Sergey Udaltsov and activist of the movement Leonid Razvozhaev, a member of the other Russia party Taisiya Osipova, a member of the Parnas party Andrei Pivovarov, civil activist Sergey Mokhnatkin, Ecologist Evgeny Vitishko and entrepreneur Oleg Navalny.