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> We're lucky to live in the west where that kind of thing doesn't happen. Was that a sarcastic comment or did you entirely miss out the whole Snowden affair ?
I think it's a reference to how Trump's lawyers keep on getting in trouble. AFAIK Snowden's lawyers have never been newsworthy — I'm sure he's got some, but I've never heard of them.
I have a huge respect for Navalny. They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they'll imprison him or try to kill him again.
I think he miscalculated the degree of cruelty he’ll experience. Also his move itself could be the trigger as if this cruelty would nit be there, then he would have been a hero winning, not a hero losing. Steps “had to be made”, sadly.
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I'm surprised he was able to make such statements for this long. I genuinely wonder why his captors even continue to let him live, when it seems like any post-2022 civil protest in Russia can and will be brutally repressed.
Have you seen pictures of him lately? For some people that's worse than death. It's a clear message from Putin. Get in my way and you'll end up like him. Not everybody is going to take that risk.
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I'm surprised he was able to make such statements for this long. I genuinely wonder why his captors even continue to let him live, when it seems like any post-2022 civil protest in Russia can and will be brutally repressed.
Have you seen pictures of him lately? For some people that's worse than death. It's a clear message from Putin. Get in my way and you'll end up like him. Not everybody is going to take that risk.
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Have you seen pictures of him lately? For some people that's worse than death. It's a clear message from Putin. Get in my way and you'll end up like him. Not everybody is going to take that risk.
I haven't seen pictures. Just did a quick search now and didn't find anything relevant. Is he in as precarious a state as Julian Assange is?
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Have you seen pictures of him lately? For some people that's worse than death. It's a clear message from Putin. Get in my way and you'll end up like him. Not everybody is going to take that risk.
I haven't seen pictures. Just did a quick search now and didn't find anything relevant. Is he in as precarious a state as Julian Assange is?
https://archive.ph/wqONd
Why do people keep pushing archive.ph/.is? The site is infamous for putting people into constant captcha check hell.
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We just do it differently. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2020/12/united-kingd...
Assange isn't a lawyer, and definitely isn't "the opposition's lawyer".
Don't get me worng: The state of justice here is certainly better than in Russia, but we should give ourselves the same scrutiny we give to the Russians. Closing our eyes when we do obvious unlawful things is bad for our rule of law and makes us look like hypocrites when we (rightfully) point out injustices elsewhere.
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Have you seen pictures of him lately? For some people that's worse than death. It's a clear message from Putin. Get in my way and you'll end up like him. Not everybody is going to take that risk.
I imagine they're treating him like they treated Winston Smith in the book 1984.
I have a huge respect for Navalny. They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they'll imprison him or try to kill him again.
I think he miscalculated the degree of cruelty he’ll experience. Also his move itself could be the trigger as if this cruelty would nit be there, then he would have been a hero winning, not a hero losing. Steps “had to be made”, sadly.