2005
Anna Politkovskaya
Acceptance Speech: Once again, the gulag has become part of the reality of Russia. Political prisoners are now being held in the same camps where once so many Soviet dissidents died…Citizens are being held and tortured if they are found to be in permanent opposition to the regime…to justify the government's acts, people with no terrorist connections are classified as suspected terrorists.
I have investigated cases where…confessions were extracted that could not possibly have been true, followed by frightfully long terms - 15 or 20 years - in Siberian camps.
Given what I do, it is in fact a miracle that I am alive today, and that I am not in prison.
Download 2006 Tribute to Anna Politkovskaya by Musa Klebnikov