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Ilya Yashin, imprisoned in 2022 for criticizing Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, said he had not given his consent to deportation and that others in more urgent need of medical care should have gone instead.

BONN, Germany, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Ilya Yashin, a Russian opposition activist freed from jail in Thursday's prisoner swap, pledged to carry on his political fight against President Vladimir Putin from abroad, but expressed fury at having been deported against his will.

The prisoner swap, the largest since the Cold War, saw eight Russians, including a convicted murderer, exchanged for 16 prisoners in Russian and Belarusian jails, many of them dissidents. It was hailed as a win by Western leaders who feared for the dissidents' lives after the death in jail last year of politician Alexei Navalny.

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[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No. We exchanged eight Russians held in non-Russian prisons for 16 prisoners (some Russian, some not) held in Russian prisons. After Navalny’s death the concern is that people imprisoned for opposing Putin will die in prison.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-gershkovich-whelan-prisoner-swap-354df585ad321ecdbea4c0f2c557f0aa