Created by E.S. on June 11, 2017

As you may be aware, peaceful mass demonstrations were held in Moscow as well as in most regions of Russia this year on the 26th of March. They protested the corruption in the highest levels of state power, including that of the Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev. As a result of these demonstrations, the Russian authorities conducted a literal "witch hunt" which resulted in the mass arrests of the citizens involved in these protests. Hundreds of people have already been arrested or convicted by the courts for various degrees of incarceration. In anticipation of your meeting with the President V. V. Putin, we ask that one of the prerequisites of this meeting to be the immediate release of Alexey Politikov as well as all those arrested and convicted for the March 26th rallies.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/free-russian-political-prisoners