At least 1,500 people are imprisoned in Russia for political reasons. Disconnected with the outside world, many of them turn to art as a form of self-expression and therapy. Perviy Otdel, an organization of lawyers and journalists that defends civil liberties and advocates for the wrongly accused in Russia, has teamed up with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights organization Memorial to collect these artworks and show them to the world. These pieces comprise the Prisoners of Conscience installation at Artists Against the Kremlin, an art exhibition co-organized by The Moscow Times in Amsterdam.
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