“You have been imprisoned. Unfairly and unlawfully”

Letter from Human Rights Activists
December 29, 2005

Telegrams were sent on December 27, 2005 to:

1. Platon Leonidovich Lebedev
Unit 12, 629420, FGU IK-3 [Federal State Establishment Convict Colony-3], 1a Gagarina St., village of Kharp, YaNAO [Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area]

2. Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky
Unit 8, colony YaG – 14/10, town of Krasnokamensk, Chita Region, 674665

3. Mikhail Ivanovich Trepashkin
Unit 10, settlement colony IK-13, Festivalnaya St., Nizhni Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, 622013

4. Pavel Borisovich Lyuzakov
Surmog Settlement, Solikamsk District, Perm Region, 618515

5. Valentin Vladimirovich Danilov
ITK– 1 [Convict Labor Colony], Gromadsk Settlement, Uyar District, Krasnoyarsky Krai, 660000

6. Igor Vyacheslavovich Sutyagin
FGU IK-1, 27 Pirsovaya St., Arkhangelsk, 163950

7. Svetlana Petrovna Bakhmina
IZ-99/1 [detention center], 18 Matrosskaya Tishina St., Moscow, 107076

8. Alexei Vladimirovich Pichugin
IZ-99/1 [detention center], 18 Matrosskaya Tishina St., Moscow, 107076

9. Alexei Genrikhovich Kurtsin
IZ-99/1 [detention center], 18 Matrosskaya Tishina St., Moscow, 107076

Dear colleague,

You have been imprisoned. Unfairly and unlawfully. We will never cease to fight for your freedom. Time spent behind bars is particularly hard during festive seasons. But the New Year is always a celebration of hope. We want you to always have friends by your side. We drink to you, to freedom – both ours and yours!

We wish you health, spiritual and physical strength, hope and patience!

Sincerely,

Ludmila Alekseyeva
Yelena Bonner
Sergei Kovalev
Lev Ponomarev
Lidia Rybina
Ernst Chorny
Gleb Yakunin
Ludmila Vakhnina
Vadim Belotserkovsky
Svetlana Gannushkina
Sergei Sorokin
Ludmila Vakhnina
Tatiana Vlasova
Tatiana Kotlyar (on behalf of the Public Chamber of the city of Kaluga)

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