Mothers of Russian prisoners demand justice from Putin Mothers of Russian prisoners denounced the prosecution of dissenters as a "travesty of justice" as they gathered outside the offices of the presidential administration. Members of a new campaigning group, Mothers against Political Repression, appealed to President Vladimir Putin to intervene in an open letter read out to journalists.\\nThe informal movement, the first of its kind, brings together families of protesters accused of violence against police, suspected extremists and others.\\nThey called on Putin to have the courts, investigators and the FSB security service probed over their handling of the cases. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES