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Russian author Boris Akunin, who was recently sentenced to a lengthy prison term in absentia after supporting Ukraine, warned other countries on Monday to be vigilant against creeping repression.
"Don't repeat our mistakes," the 69-year-old author told diplomats gathered at an event on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Akunin, a longstanding critic of the Kremlin and its military offensive on Ukraine, was sentenced in July to 14 years behind bars after a Moscow military court found him guilty, among other things, of "aiding terrorist activity" with pro-Ukraine comments and "justifying terrorism" over a 2024 Telegram post in which he said he was "for revolution" in Russia.
Speaking alongside Belarusian Nobel Literature Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, whose books have been banned in Russia, and two journalists who had previously been jailed there for their work, he described the slow "strangling of culture" that had been underway in the country for years.
Now, he warned, the same was starting "to happen in the United States of America as well".
"Don't let it happen."
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"Don't repeat our mistakes," the 69-year-old author told diplomats gathered at an event on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Akunin, a longstanding critic of the Kremlin and its military offensive on Ukraine, was sentenced in July to 14 years behind bars after a Moscow military court found him guilty, among other things, of "aiding terrorist activity" with pro-Ukraine comments and "justifying terrorism" over a 2024 Telegram post in which he said he was "for revolution" in Russia.
Speaking alongside Belarusian Nobel Literature Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, whose books have been banned in Russia, and two journalists who had previously been jailed there for their work, he described the slow "strangling of culture" that had been underway in the country for years.
Now, he warned, the same was starting "to happen in the United States of America as well".
"Don't let it happen."
'Don't repeat our mistakes' - Russian writer Akunin warns against creeping repression
Russian author Boris Akunin, who was recently sentenced to a lengthy prison term in absentia after supporting Ukraine, warned other countries on Monday to be vigilant against creeping repression."We never thought that regression was possible," Akunin said, warning that countries that "have been...