What is it like to be the mother of a political prisoner? In two words: exhausting work

What is it like to be the mother of a political prisoner? In two words: exhausting work

“When your children are in prison, you live two lives,” says one of the women featured in this piece. Care packages, meetings with a lawyer, preparing for visits, all of this is a full-time job. Only it is unpaid, and in fact the opposite is true: supporting loved ones in prison is, among other things, very expensive. At the link, four Russian women tell how their lives were transformed by the persecution of their children, and why they need help.

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“If I had been 17 years old in 2024 in Russia, perhaps I would have been in prison too”

At least 1,500 people in Russia are paying with their freedom for their civic stance. The state punishes not only such people, but also their loved ones: in a Russian prison it is impossible to survive without support from the outside, and that requires every imaginable effort and resource.…