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Inside Europe - Amnesty or Sham-nesty in Putin's Russia?

Mareike AdenJuly 16, 2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an amnesty earlier this year to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Kremlin said up to 60,000 prisoners would be released and a further 200,000 would have their sentences suspended. But as Mareike Aden reports from Moscow, human rights activists now believe the amnesty was simply a sham.

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