Alternative Civilian Service and Prisoners of Conscience in the New Russia

Abstract

Until recently, people could argue over whether there are prisoners of conscience in present-day Russia, but the question was answered in the affirmative on 25 November 1999. Before us is the story of Dmitrii Neverovskii, sentenced by the court of the Russian town of Obninsk to two years' imprisonment for his beliefs. He had already endured more than five months' detention at the isolation unit in Kaluga.