Whether a 14-year-old protester or an anti-war artist, anyone deemed critical of Putin's regime can be locked up for years in Russia. A new film follows the plight of these political prisoners.
In a social media video, a young Russian teenager holds a solo protest by showing anti-government slogans that read "Freedom for political prisoners," or "I am against Putin."
We can immediately sense that this boy, Arseny Turbin, who is only 14 years old at the time, is committed to social justice. But few would imagine that his courageous, if somewhat naive, activism might in any way threaten the power of Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Yet in a country where crackdown on dissent is widespread, such posts — even when they don't go viral — apparently carry enough threat to attract the authorities' attention.
Turbin is currently serving a five-year prison sentence, making him one of Russia's youngest political prison
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