6 August 2024
This as-told-to essay is based on a [Business Insider] conversation with Aleksandra “Sasha” Skochilenko, a Russian artist who was sentenced to seven years in prison in March 2022 for replacing supermarket price tags with anti-war slogans. She was released last week as part of the prisoner swap between the US, Russia, and other countries. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
On Thursday, an FSB officer told us we were going to be freed as part of a prisoner swap — the miracle we had been waiting and hoping for. At first, I didn’t believe it — for 2 ½ years, I’d been lied to every single day. I thought that I would be serving the rest of my sentence — seven years. Russian political prisoners don’t have the privilege of early release.
Continue reading at: https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-artist-freed-sasha-skochilenko-prisoner-swaps-describes-release-freedom-2024-8 (Source)
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