Russia Detains Citizens for Dissent
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A lonely Russian man jailed 3 years for criticizing the government on his amateur radio show.
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A poet assaulted by police and raped after reciting an anti-war poem, sentenced to 7 years in prison.
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A woman committed to a psychiatric facility for 6 months over social media posts condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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The crackdown on dissent in Russia is reminiscent of Soviet times, with ordinary citizens swept up along with activists and journalists.
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Human rights advocates compare the scale of repression to the harsh suppression of dissent from the 1960s to 1980s in the USSR.