How many political prisoners in the CIS
After the PACE session of September, 2012 the experts of “SF” finally summarized the number of political prisoners in the CIS countries, for which had used data from Wikipedia.
Before this, the controversy was about proposals on classifying representatives of the “those in power” to the political prisoners, but experts had decided that they fully comply with the definition in all parameters and they are prisoners of conscience.
The number of political prisoners in countries that ratified on December, 1991 agreement on establishment of the CIS the following (in alphabetical order):
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Armenia– 3277000 Azerbaijan – 9493600 Belarus – 9465400 Kazakhstan – 16836000 |
Kyrgyzstan – 5543300 Moldova– 3559500 Russia – 143142000 Tajikistan– 7616400 |
Turkmenistan – 5042000 Ukraine – 45561989 Uzbekistan – 29735700 |
Opinions of the experts were unanimous except for the candidacy of Yulia Timoshenko.
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