Alexander Pinchossowitsch Podrabinek
Alexander Pinchossowitsch Podrabinek ( Russian Александр Пинхосович Подрабинек , scientific transliteration Aleksandr Pinchosovič Podrabinek ; born August 8, 1953 in Moscow ) is a Russian journalist and human rights activist. He was one of the first to sign the Prague Declaration on Europe's Conscience and Communism .
Life
After graduating from medical school, Podrabinek first worked as a helper in a medical emergency team. At the beginning of the 1970s he joined the human rights movement in the Soviet Union , he became known in the West for his book Die Strafmedizin (Russian: Карательная медицина), which he completed in 1977 , in which he described the abuse of psychiatry to suppress politically dissenters . The book was first published in English in 1980 in the United States under the title Punitive Medicine . As part of the Moscow Helsinki Group , Podrabinek continued to work on this topic, he was also the author of the samizdat series Chronicle of Current Events (Russian Хроника текущих событий ). In 1978 he was arrested and sentenced to five years' exile in north-eastern Siberia for defamation of the Soviet system. In 1980 he was sentenced a second time in exile, this time to three and a half years in prison, this time for the English edition of his book and the dissemination of samizdat literature, among other things. After his release, he lived in Kirschatsch in Vladimir Oblast and worked again as a medical emergency worker.
Podrabinek's journalistic career began during the period of perestroika and glasnost . From 1987 to 2000 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly human rights magazine Express-Chronika (Russian Экспресс-Хроника ). When this ceased publication, he became editor-in-chief of the news agency Prima-News (Russian Прима-News ), which specialized in human rights issues.
In this capacity Podrabinek came into conflict several times with the new state power in the territory of the former Soviet Union. In December 2003, 4,000 copies of Alexander Litvinenko's co-authored book How the FSB blows up Russia were confiscated on the way to Moscow. Prima-News was supposed to distribute the book in Russia. On January 28, 2004, Podrabinek was taken to Lefortowo prison by the FSB and questioned by Prima-News about the financial situation . At the same time, he was informed that the book was being investigated for the publication of state secrets. He was released without charge that same day.
Podrabinek was arrested in Minsk in March 2006 for protesting against the re-election of Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka and sentenced to 15 days in prison.
He went into temporary hiding in the fall of 2009 after Nashi activists demonstrated daily outside his house based on an article about Soviet veterans, and in 2010 he supported Putin must go .
Works
- Punitive Medicine. Karoma Publishers, Ann Arbor 1980, ISBN 0-89720-022-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ex-spy's book 'seized' in Russia On: BBC online December 30, 2003
- ↑ Fabian Adami: Fallout from Moscow bombing case continues on the homepage of the University of Boston (USA)
- ^ World Press Freedom Review 2004 Russia ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) On the website of the International Press Institute
- ↑ Alexander Podrabinek: The Islet of Freedom on the website of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe of May 2, 2006
- ^ Nikolaus von Twickel: Russia Today courts viewers with controversy , Russia Beyond the Headlines on March 23, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Podrabinek, Alexander Pinchossowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Александр Пинхосович Подрабинек |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian journalist and human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |