Russian dissident Vladmir Osechkin spoke to FRANCE 24 from the French city of Biarritz, where he has been living in exile since 2015. The founder of Gulagu.net, an NGO that documents abuses in the Russian prison system, believes the Russian secret services "tried to organise his liquidation" in September 2022. Osechkin compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to a "new Stalin" at the head of a 21st-century Gulag, "pushing inmates to head to war" in Ukraine.
Speaking from Biarritz in southwestern France, Osechkin explained why he believes the Russian secret services tried to kill him last September. Gulagu.net, an NGO he founded a decade ago, revealed the "torture system" taking in place in Russian prisons, he said, and the "secret services are afraid [of facing the] International Criminal Court" were the world to find out about their human rights violations.
