 A journalist and human rights defender covering Dadin’s courageous one-man pickets against human rights violations under the Putin regime and the war in Ukraine, Anastasia Zotova married Ildar Dadin in late 2015 after he had already been arrested. She continued to publicise his plight after his imprisonment in a penal colony in Karelia, where he was tortured, and during his subsequent transfer to another prison camp in southern Siberia. Husband and wife have done more than anyone, arguably, to expose conditions in Russia’s large and brutal penitentiary system which today holds dozens more political prisoners. She has been the inspiration behind the website Territory of Torture. The 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards, for which Ildar Dadin was been shortlisted, took place at London’s Unicorn Theatre on Wednesday 19 April 2017. During the week, Anastasia Zotova also spoke at a joint event held by Index on Censorship and Doughty Street Chambers on 19 April. |
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