person of the week №1 07/15/1994 (1994)

Human rights activist Valery Abramkin speaks about the situation of prisoners in remand centers in Russia, about the need to create normal conditions for prisoners, the reasons for his arrest in 1979, the charges against him and his stay in the prison and camp, the number of prisoners in Russia, on the punishment in the West, on assistance to the prisoners of Butyrskaya prison, about the epidemic of tuberculosis in places of detention and its consequences, about the problems of the Russian the system of execution of punishments, the reaction of European experts to the situation with prisoners in Russia, the need to combat violations of human rights.