Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches - Plot & Excerpts
Planet Earth: The World Beyond RussiaAnna Politkovskaya did not only criticize the Putin regime and Russia’s “security forces;” she was not uncritical of the West. Nevertheless, she admired civilised and enlightened attitudes when she encountered them there, and hoped they might be transplanted.THE PRINCIPLE OF DENMARK: A PRISON WHERE THEY DON’T BEAT BUT RESPECT THEIR PRISONERSFebruary 1, 2001It is generally accepted that we Russians do not like ourselves much. Clear proof of this is the appalling state of our 195 pre-trial detention facilities in prisons. For the second year in succession the inspectors of the Council of Europe have described conditions in these as tantamount to torture. Out of a total of over one million people in detention, almost 300,000 are awaiting verdicts in pre-trial detention facilities and prisons. According to Oleg Mironov, the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Russian Federation, 85,000 of these have no place to sleep (the facilities and prisons are 226.3 per cent over capacity), more than 90,000 are suffering from an active form of tuberculosis, and more than 5,000 are HIV-positive.
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