RSN: Masha Gessen | Taking Children From Their Parents Is a Form of State Terror




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Riot police arrest a boy during demonstrations against the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow, May 5, 2018. (photo: Celestino Arce/Getty)
Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
Gessen writes: "Hostage-taking is an instrument of terror. Capturing family members, especially children, is a tried-and-true instrument of totalitarian terror."
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