thought that journalists can just be picked up off the street for no reason, thrown into prison, thrown into basically the gulag and never know when they re going to get out, or vlad, a friend of mine, who is a russian dissident, who is now facing his trial, just gave his closing argument in case predicted predic ed a reckoning for vladimir putin, this is how they play these are the kind of dictators that donald trump was just praising in their interview. and america stands for freedom, america stands for bringing these people home. and i just thank god that we have negotiators like mr. carson that wake up every morning, thinking about how are we going to get these people out. senator klobuchar, this is eddie dplglaude how do you think this is going to play out politically? we see what s happened in wisconsin? we see young folk across the country motivated, fired up. what do you think will be the
to make prisoners feel abandoned. i m nowjoined live by natan sharansky, a former soviet prisoner who was arrested in 1977 by the kgb and accused of espionage and treason. he spent nine years as a political prisoner, including time in lefortovo prison. you re very welcome to the programme, thank you for being with us. tell us, then, what is it like inside this prison? us. tell us, then, what is it like inside this prison? good evening. well, first of inside this prison? good evening. well, first of what inside this prison? good evening. well, first of what it inside this prison? good evening. well, first of what it is inside this prison? good evening. well, first of what it is by - inside this prison? good evening. well, first of what it is by far i inside this prison? good evening. well, first of what it is by far the | well, first of what it is by far the most isolated prison in the gulag system in soviet russia. for example, i spent more than one year of interrogations, i
from the world. secondly, of course there is a lot of psychological pressure, explaining that with such a serious accusation you could be sentenced to death if you do not cooperate. our bodies corporate mean which it means you have to say publicly that they are right and you are sorry that you made some mistakes. that s they need. i m sure that at this moment, today, it seems like a little bit different regime, but the accusations are the same and some of the new political prisoners are sent to many years to the gulag is for nothing. sol are sent to many years to the gulag is for nothing. so i think it is very important for america, or the highest level to say as clearly as possible but there is no base for accusing him of espionage. in my case, president carter said that all the documents showed there was no