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Zara Murtazalieva, Former prisoner in Siberian penal colony

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Zara Murtazalieva talks to Douglas Herbert about her eight-and-a-half year ordeal in a Stalin-era Siberian penal colony, where she was subject to beatings, humiliation and solitary confinement.

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