Recently, the first large-scale exchange of prisoners since the Cold War took place between the aggressor country – Russia and Ukraine’s Western allies. A number of social and political activists were released from Russian prisons, but spies, murderers and terrorists returned to Moscow.
The Anti-imperial Block of Nations welcomes the efforts of democracies to release Kremlin prisoners and hostages but urges them to prepare more carefully personal lists for exchange, avoiding the release of brutal killers whose hands are the blood of real political opponents of Putin. At the same time, the ABN advises to pay attention to Ukrainian prisoners of war who are still in captivity, to children kidnapped and illegally taken from the territory of Ukraine, convicted Crimean Tatar activists, and finally, to representatives of the national liberation movements of peoples enslaved by Russia.
To date, hundreds of political prisoners who represent the national liberation movements of enslaved peoples are in Russian prisons on falsified charges. They are the real freedom fighters, they waged a real political and sometimes armed struggle against the Putin regime, and now they are being tortured in Russian concentration camps, where they are slowly and cynically killed. Instead, representatives from the so-called “democratic” Russian opposition, after their release, are trying to convince the West of the need to preserve Russia and seek to return to the terrible “prison of nations.”
We believe that the governments of democratic states should facilitate the release of political prisoners of national liberation movements of the enslaved peoples: Ramila Saitova, Faila Alsynov, Zarifa Sautieva, Altan Ochirov, Oleksandr Gabyshev, Kirill Akimov, Parvina Abuzarova, Zarema Musaeva and hundreds of other fighters for the freedom of their peoples.
The Anti-imperial Block of Nations, which has its representatives in most of the civilized states of the world, is ready to work together on the formation of lists of real political prisoners and hostages of the Kremlin. We call on the governments of democratic states to actively cooperate in the direction of releasing fighters for the ideals of freedom!
Oleh Medunytsya, President of the Anti-Imperial Block of Nations
