INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Although jailed activist and politician Lilia Chanysheva had virtually no hope of changing her sentence in an appeal originally scheduled
for Monday, she told The Moscow Times she still intends to fight back.Chanysheva was the first associate of jailed opposition figure Alexei
republic of Bashkortostan, where she led local anti-corruption protests and investigations that revealed alleged corruption by region head
a letter from prison delivered by her lawyer
Monday postponed her appeal hearing, which had been scheduled for that day, to Nov
Human Rights Watch mentioned her criminal case in its 2022 report on the eradication of public dissent in the country
month.Besides sending and reading letters, Chanysheva said she keeps herself busy by reading books and newspapers and continuing her
collection in a Moscow pre-trial detention center," she said.For Chanysheva, 41, one of the most devastating aspects of her arrest has been
four-bed cell with almost no opportunity to speak to other prisoners.Last week, prison authorities transferred her to a different pre-trial
detention center in Bashkortostan without notifying her lawyers, who said that this complicated their preparations for the
mobilization and introduced new repressive laws, effectively implementing military censorship, which has created a grim atmosphere within
messages, creating an illusion of energetic activity and enhancing his sense of self-importance while real people are suffering and
