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Prison rights campaigner Russian Abramkin dies

AFP
January 27, 2013, 12:04 am TWN
MOSCOW -- Valery Abramkin, a former Soviet political prisoner whose horrifying experiences prompted him to campaign for better prison conditions, has died at 66, the NGO that he headed announced Saturday.

“On January 25 Valery Abramkin, the founder and continuing leader of the Moscow Centre for Prison Reform and former political prisoner, died after a lengthy illness,” the NGO said on its website.

“He saw what life was like for prisoners and when he came out of the camp he devoted his whole life to improving the lot of prisoners,” veteran rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who heads the Moscow Helsinki Group, told the RIA Novosti news agency.

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