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2 days ago · Most Gulag inmates were not political prisoners, although significant numbers of political prisoners could be found in the camps at any one time. Petty crimes and jokes about the Soviet government and officials were punishable by imprisonment.
- List of Gulag Camps
The list below, enumerates the selected sites of the Soviet...
- The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary...
- Gulag (Disambiguation)
The Gulag was the government agency that administered the...
- Vorkutlag
The armed Lesoreid uprising began on January 24 in the...
- Death and State Funeral
Illness and death. Joseph Stalin's health had begun to...
- Genrikh Yagoda
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич...
- Ukrainian Nationalists
The OUN-M also organized police forces, recruited from...
- Israel Pliner
Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union Israel...
- Lazar Kogan
Political party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
- List of Gulag Camps
4 days ago · Political prisoners are people who have been imprisoned because of their political beliefs, activities and affiliations. There is much debate about who qualifies as a "political prisoner". The category of "political prisoner" is often contested, and many regimes that incarcerate political prisoners often claim that they are merely "criminals".
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1 day ago · The first major Nazi concentration camp, initially for political prisoners, was opened at Dachau in 1933. Hundreds of camps of varying size and function were created by the end of the war. Beginning in April 1933, scores of measures defining the status of Jews and their rights were instituted.
5 days ago · AAPP defines a political prisoner as anyone arrested, detained, or imprisoned because of their perceived or known active role, perceived, or known supporting role, or in association with activities promoting freedom, justice, equality, human rights, including ethnic rights, in association with the pro-democracy movement. (August 2014)
4 days ago · We consider the persecution and imprisonment of the named individuals to be politically motivated, related to the peaceful exercise of expressing thoughts, and consider them political prisoners in accordance with paragraph 3.1 (a) of the Guidelines on the Definition of Political Prisoners.
4 days ago · Date - 24 May 2024 Since the 1 February 2021 coup, a total of (5,143) people, including pro-democracy activists and civilians have been killed by the junta and pro-military groups during the Spring Revolution. In addition to the total fatality figure, AAPP has documented around (1,800) deceased persons whose names are unknown and still need to be verified. Since the coup, a total of (26,728 ...
4 days ago · On July 28, 1988, the Iranian regime began a mass purge of its prisons from political prisoners, executing anyone who refused to repent their opposition to the rule of Khomeini. In the span of a few months, the regime’s executioners sent more than 30 thousand prisoners to the gallows.
