3/11/24: Putin’s Hostages: Bring Them Home, Week 11

While Vladimir Putin’s HOSTAGES continue to languish in the hell of Russia’s modern-day GULAG, arrests are still being made of citizens who have done nothing more than express their sorrow and outrage at the death of Alexei Navalny. Those citizens were identified by CCTV facial recognition cameras outside the church and the cemetery on the day of his funeral, or while laying flowers at makeshift memorials to a man who dared to be a thorn in Putin’s side.

While their punishments appear to have been mild, they are clearly meant to intimidate the entire population of the country, and to remind them that fascism has indeed returned to today’s Russia. The man in the Kremlin, who has ruled for nearly 24 years and is about to be reelected for yet another six-year term, is a man without scruples, without conscience, and without concern as to the opinions of the rest of the world. The killing of Alexei Navalny, occurring despite the ongoing international outcry against his imprisonment, was a clear signal that no one is safe from the wrath of Vladimir Putin.

So I once more urge you not to forget or forsake those men and women being held HOSTAGE by the Russian government, who have done no more than speak out against the dictatorial, fascist regime of Vladimir Putin. While they have been forced into silence, we have not.

We must continue to use our voices for them.