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#OtD 25 Oct 1882 German anarchist Johann Most was released from Clerkenwell Prison in London after spending a year and a half there doing forced labour for praising the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Russian revolutionaries stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9781...

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Bob Henderson

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In 1898 the same law was used (Section 4 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861) to prosecute V. L. Burtsev, the only Russian revolutionary ever to be imprisoned in the UK.

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He would go on to be horse-whipped by Emma Goldman for sexual harassment.