这是一份令人窒息的判决。2022年9月5日，在莫斯科，一场闭门审判结束后，法官仅宣读了引言和判决结果，记者伊万·萨夫罗诺夫被判处在严格管制的劳改营中服刑22年。当时他年仅32岁。作为军事事务专家以及《生意人报》的前国防记者，他于2020年7月7日被捕，并被控“叛国罪”，理由是据称将包含政府机密的数篇分析性文章传给了捷克同事和一位德国政治学家。
It was a crushing verdict. On September 5, 2022, in Moscow, at the end of a closed-door trial during which the judge read only the introduction and the verdict, journalist Ivan Safronov was sentenced to 22 years in a strict-regime penal colony. He was 32 years old at the time. An expert on military affairs and former defense correspondent for the daily newspaper Kommersant, he had been arrested on July 7, 2020, and charged with "high treason" for having allegedly transmitted several analytical articles containing government secrets to a Czech colleague and a German political scientist.
他的支持者谴责这一定罪是“安全部门”的报复行为。从那时起，萨夫罗诺夫一直在位于西伯利亚克拉斯诺亚尔斯克边疆区的IK-17劳改营服刑。与该劳改营的所有囚犯一样，他被迫劳动，因此每天在缝纫车间度过。到了晚上，他则读书，反复阅读。在他提出请求后，前合作伙伴克谢尼娅·米罗诺娃寄给他的一本书，是维克多·雨果的《悲惨世界》（1862年）的俄语版。就这样，他再次沉浸在让·瓦让的故事中——这位主人公曾在劳改营中度过了19年。
His supporters denounced the conviction as retaliation by the "security services." Since then, Safronov has been serving his sentence in Penal Colony IK-17, located in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia. Like all of the colony's inmates, he is forced to work, and so he spends his days in the site's sewing workshops. In the evenings, he reads. And rereads. One of the books his former partner, Ksenia Mironova, sent him, after he requested it, is a Russian-language copy of Les Misérables (1862), by Victor Hugo. He has thus once again dived into the story of Jean Valjean, who spent 19 years in a penal colony. Le Monde asked Safronov to write a piece about reading this book while in prison. He sent correspondence through Mironova.
《世界报》请萨夫罗诺夫写一篇文章，讲述他在狱中阅读这本书的经历。他通过米罗诺娃传递了信件。尽管监狱管理部门能够阅读他的信件，但信件内容并未被任何篡改。萨夫罗诺夫被国际特赦组织视为“良心犯”，如今已36岁，他仍需服刑16年。
While the prison administration was able to read his letters, they were not altered in any way. Safronov, whom Amnesty International considers a "prisoner of conscience," is now 36 years old. He still has 16 years left to serve. Benjamin Quénelle On Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo "War is qualified only by its object. There is no such thing as foreign war or civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
Benjamin Quénelle 论维克多·雨果的《悲惨世界》“战争只能由其目的来定性。不存在什么对外战争或内战；只有正义战争和非正义战争。直到缔结伟大的人类协定的那一天来临之前，战争——至少是那种代表未来的努力、冲向过去、落在后面的战争——可能是必要的。我们有什么可指责这种战争的呢？战争不会成为耻辱，剑不会成为耻辱，除非它们被用来谋杀权利、进步、理性、文明、真理。那时，无论是对外战争还是内战，都是不义的；它被称为犯罪。”
Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth.
我恰好属于那类坚信仅读书是不够的人：你绝对必须重读。只有那时，它们才会在新的光芒中显现，你才能不仅发现情节，还能发现作品中隐藏的深层含义，那些不显露在表面的东西。我曾三次手捧维克多·雨果的《悲惨世界》：在学校里、在莫斯科的列福尔托沃监狱里、在克拉斯诺亚尔斯克的严管劳改营里，我正在那里服所谓的刑期。也是我写下这篇文字的地方。
Then war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime." I happen to belong to the category of people who are convinced that reading books is not enough: You absolutely must reread them. Only then do they reveal themselves in a new light, only then can you discover not only the plot but also the deeper meaning hidden within the work, that which does not appear on the surface. I have held Les Misérables by Victor Hugo in my hands on three occasions: at school, at Lefortovo Prison in Moscow and in the strict-regime penal colony in Krasnoyarsk, where I am serving what is called a sentence. And from where I am writing this text.