We tell you what happened over the past six months and make plans for the future.
This winter, we distributed 2025 wall calendars featuring the birthdays of seriously ill political prisoners. Over 300 leading politicians and leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the Americas, as well as non-governmental human rights organizations and media outlets, received our calendars along with a letter asking them to do everything possible to secure the release of seriously ill Russian political prisoners.
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The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Russia, Maryana Katsarova, received a list of seriously ill political prisoners and, in her speech in Geneva, called for everything possible to secure their release.
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One of the campaign's heroes, municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov , was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in January with the assistance of campaign participants.
VIEW telegramThe #free120 campaign enables collaboration between anti-war initiatives from different countries, supports each other in new projects, and shares experiences in real-world situations.
The campaign includes offline meetings, events, and speeches aimed at drawing international attention to the fate of political prisoners in Russia.
During the Munich Security Conference, activists held a picket demanding that the peace "deal" with Putin include a clause on the release of Russian political prisoners. The action was organized by Campaign 120, Faces of Russian Resistance, Navalny's team in Munich, the local branch of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance, Deputies of Peaceful Russia, and the Letters to Political Prisoners project. Ekaterina Shulman also supported the idea.
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At the opening of the "Faces of the Russian Resistance" exhibition in Paris, Elena Filina addressed European politicians and heads of state, calling on them to secure the release of seriously ill political prisoners.
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Svetlana Utkina of the "Deputies of Peaceful Russia" spoke about the #free120pzk campaign and presented calendars in Brussels during a meeting with Amnesty International representatives, as well as during a conversation with Els Van Hoof, head of the Belgian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, and other parliamentarians.
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In March, Russian activists in Ireland held a roundtable discussion at Trinity College Dublin with local politicians, public figures, and human rights advocates to explore various tools for achieving the #free120pzk campaign's goals. Anti-war émigré initiatives from various countries and continents joined the roundtable.
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At the Helgeland Museum in Norway, a Norwegian-language screening of the exhibition "Faces of the Russian Resistance" was held during a meeting of mayors from 18 municipalities.
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At the end of May, the Russian anti-war initiative in Istanbul submitted an appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarch asking for assistance in the release of sick political prisoners by all available means.
Members of parliament from a peaceful Russia wrote a letter to US President Donald Trump calling for the release of sick political prisoners to be on the peace talks agenda. They also sent appeals to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as the new ministers and the head of the German government, asking them to include in the negotiation process the demand for the release of arbitrarily imprisoned Ukrainian citizens and Russian political prisoners from Russian prisons.
The American anti-war initiative association People for Free Russia has launched the "Portraits of Hope" project.Artists from around the world have painted portraits of ailing political prisoners in a variety of styles. Exhibitions have already been held in several European cities. We are currently seeking partners to promote this project on all continents.
Curator: Elena Mityushina.
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