Alexander Podrabinek
Soviet-Russian human rights activist and journalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alexander Pinkhosovich Podrabinek (Russian: Алекса́ндр Пи́нхосович Подраби́нек; born 8 August 1953) is a Soviet dissident, journalist and commentator.[2][3] During the Soviet period he was a human rights activist, being exiled, then imprisoned in a corrective-labour colony, for publication of his book Punitive Medicine in Russian and in English.[4]
Alexander Podrabinek | |
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Александр Подрабинек | |
Born | (1953-08-08) 8 August 1953 (age 70) |
Citizenship | Soviet Union (1953–1991) → Russian Federation (1991–present) |
Alma mater | I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University |
Occupation(s) | paramedic, human right activist, journalist, writer |
Known for | human rights activism in USSR in the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes and struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union; the post-1991 founding of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia |
Notable work | Punitive Medicine (1979), Dissidents (2014) |
Movement | dissident movement in the Soviet Union, Solidarnost |
Spouse | Alla[1] |
Children | sons Mark and Daniil, daughter Anna |
Awards | Znamya magazine award 2013, Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom, 2015 |
In 1987, while still forced to live outside Moscow in internal banishment, Podrabinek became the founder and editor-in-chief of the Express Chronicle weekly newspaper. In the 1990s he set up and ran the Prima information agency.[5][6] Over the past ten years he has worked, variously, for the Novaya gazeta newspaper, the Yezhednevny Zhurnal website[7] and the Russian Services of Radio France Internationale[8][9] and Radio Liberty.[10]