Responding to reports that Aleksandr Gabyshev, a Siberian shaman walking across Russia to Moscow and promising to use his magic powers to “purge” President Vladimir Putin in 2021, was abducted by a squad of masked law enforcement officials and held in an undisclosed location, Amnesty International’s Russia Director Natalia Zviagina said: “The Russian authorities response to the shaman’s actions is grotesque. Aleksandr Gabyshev should be free to express his political views and exercise his religion and beliefs just like anyone else”.
Amnesty International: Siberian shaman must be released
Russian soldiers of special police forces stand near their buses in central Moscow on August 31, 2019.
