The Russian mathematician relentlessly persecuted by Putin's henchmen
Russian mathematician Azat Miftakhov, serving a six-year sentence in a penal colony for supposed vandalism, is in principle eligible for release in September. But Russia’s security services, the FSB, are preparing a new case against him, using the false testimony of individuals under torture, this time for supposed terrorist activities. In this report by Antoine Perraud, two Russian anarchists exiled in France recount their ordeals at the hands of the Kremlin regime.
TheThe case of brilliant young Russian mathematician Azat Miftakhov, a postgraduate student of the Lomonossov Moscow State university, is emblematic of the perverse repressive practices of the regime of Vladimir Putin.
