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In the Soviet Union, during Joseph Stalin's 1936–38 Great Purge, Lefortovo Prison was used by the NKVD secret police for mass executions and interrogational torture. Later Lefortovo was an infamous KGB prison and interrogation site (called an "investigative isolator", or СИЗО: следственный изолятор) for political ...
Apr 5, 2023 · Former prisoners at Lefortovo and their lawyers and families describe a sterile facility carefully engineered to make its prisoners feel abandoned.
Jan 4, 2019 · Lefortovo Prison in Moscow, where Whelan is being held, has a long, violent history. During Joseph Stalin’s “Great Terror,” most political prisoners taken there were shot or tortured to...
May 31, 2023 · Ivan Safronov, a Russian journalist serving a 22-year sentence in Krasnodar for treason, spent over two years in Lefortovo, from 2020 to 2022. In a letter to The Washington Post about his time ...
Mar 31, 2023 · Lefortovo prison, where American journalist Evan Gershkovich has been jailed on espionage charges, dates from the czarist era and has been a terrifying symbol of repression since Soviet times.
May 2, 2023 · Since his arrest on charges of espionage just over a month ago, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been held in Russia’s most notorious prison, Lefortovo, located in a leafy...
Mar 31, 2023 · Lefortovo prison, where American journalist Evan Gershkovich has been jailed on espionage charges, dates from the czarist era and has been a terrifying symbol of repression since Soviet times.
Mar 29, 2024 · Evan Gershkovich has been jailed in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison awaiting trial on charges of espionage. He and his newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, deny all charges.
Apr 11, 2022 · Instead, Putin placed Beseda under a false name in Lefortovo prison – the only prison in the country under control of the FSB, a place with a gruesome reputation from the 1930s and 1940s.
Apr 6, 2023 · The history of the prison where 31-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is held shows the limits of Russia’s post-Soviet reform.
Apr 5, 2023 · Lefortovo prison in Moscow, seen on Jan. 8, 2019. Photo: AFP via Getty Images. At Lefortovo prison, the interrogations start with the clanging of metal. Guards patrolling hundreds of cells...
Apr 18, 2023 · Lefortovo is unusual in Russia ’s regular prison system, as it holds high-profile people investigated for crimes including treason, terrorism or espionage. Former US Marine Paul Whelan was detained there in 2018 before being sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges and transferred to another prison.
Apr 3, 2024 · Discover the chilling truth behind Russia's most infamous prison, Lefortovo. From its dark origins to its modern-day secrets, delve into the stories of those...
Jul 12, 2010 · When Igor Sutyagin, a nuclear researcher and convicted U.S. spy, was abruptly taken from an Arctic detention and brought back to Moscow to be swapped for Russian spooks, Lefortovo Prison was...
Apr 11, 2023 · CNN’s Matthew Chance offers a rare look at a notorious Russian prison where Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is being held.
Mar 31, 2023 · Lefortovo prison, where American journalist Evan Gershkovich has been jailed on espionage charges, dates from the czarist era and has been a terrifying symbol of repression since Soviet...
Apr 9, 2023 · Daniloff was detained for 13 days at Lefortovo prison, the main detention facility for the KGB. Emma Burrows/CNN. Daniloff’s arrest had followed immediately on the arrest in New York of accused...
9 hours ago · The reported prison moves follow the unusually swift conviction on July 19 of U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges he denies. He was handed 16 years in jail and Russia has already ...
Jul 13, 2023 · Mr. Gershkovich, 31, has been held at Moscow’s high-security Lefortovo Prison since late March on espionage charges. The United States and The Wall Street Journal have vehemently denied the...
Sep 29, 2023 · Gershkovich remains behind bars in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo prison. In March, Gershkovich, who was an accredited correspondent in Russia, was on a reporting trip in the city of Yekaterinburg, when he was arrested by the country’s powerful FSB domestic intelligence service.
1 day ago · Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was also convicted in unusual haste in a secret trial on the same day and sentenced to 6-1/2 years ...
Mar 30, 2023 · For the next month -- 13 days as an inmate at Lefortovo Prison, 17 days as a parolee in the American Embassy in Moscow -- I was a pawn in a superpower game of strategy and will. I was manipulated...
Jan 4, 2019 · Paul Whelan, a US citizen who was arrested by Russian authorities in Moscow and charged with espionage, is being held in Lefortovo Prison.
1 day ago · New Delhi, July 30 -- Former senior Russian defence official Dmitry Bulgakov has been arrested and charged with corruption in the latest high-profile case of Russia's military purge. Bulgakov, who ...
Apr 4, 2023 · Gershkovich, 31, is currently awaiting trial in Lefortovo, a former KGB prison known for holding high-profile prisoners. He pleaded not guilty in a closed court hearing on Thursday, where his lawyer and media were not allowed in. Russia has not permitted U.S. diplomats or Gershkovich's lawyer to visit him since his arrest.
Jul 22, 2024 · Most of that was in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison — a czarist-era lockup used during Josef Stalin’s purges, when executions were carried out in its basement. He was transferred to Yekaterinburg for the trial. Gershkovich was the first U.S. journalist arrested on espionage charges since Nicholas Daniloff in 1986, at the height of the Cold War. Foreign journalists in Russia were shocked by Gershkovich’s arrest, even though the country has enacted increasingly repressive laws on ...
Jul 23, 2024 · GENEVA – Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s 16-year prison sentence on spurious espionage charges by a court in Yekaterinburg and a six-and-a-half year prison term on the same day imposed by a court in Kazan on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva on groundless charges of “spreading fake news about the Russian army”, send a threatening message to all journalists, UN human rights experts warned today.
Jul 19, 2024 · DMITRI LOVETSKY / AP. Quinze mois d’enquête, trois jours à peine de procès : sans surprise, la justice russe a, vendredi 19 juillet, condamné à seize ans de prison l’Américain Evan ...
