Russian human rights group faces threat of closure
Source: Guardian UK
Russias justice ministry has asked the supreme court to close Memorial, the countrys best-known human rights organisation which groups together more than 50 agencies nationwide.
Founded in 1989 under the auspices of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, Memorial is celebrated for leading efforts to uncover communist-era repressions and fight discrimination in modern day Russia.
However, a lawsuit filed by the ministry on 24 September was accepted by the Supreme Court the next day, according to reports from Russian news agencies last week.
Russian prosecutors had earlier attempted to have Memorial officially registered as a foreign agent under a new Russian law, but a Moscow court struck down that request.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/russian-human-rights-group-faces-threat-closure
Putin increases the hellish grip of totalitarianism in Russia
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Human rights do not matter to him
Tarheel_Dem
(31,258 posts)Can Edward Snowden cite human rights and still applaud Putin?
"Perhaps it was no more than being naive, but to list Putin's Russia, as Snowden did, among his little list of countries for "being the first to stand against human rights violations" suggests a dangerous moral relativism.
Far from being a champion, Russia's record on human rights violations is a grim one. Snowden's meeting with human rights groups in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport was preceded by another piece of human rights news the posthumous conviction of whisteblower Sergei Magnitsky, who was tortured in a Russian prison and denied medical attention that might have saved his life.
Amnesty, whose representative was at the Snowden meeting, had earlier announced the latest murder of a journalist in Russia, Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, who was killed by an unknown gunman in the North Caucasus region after his name appeared on a death list."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/13/edward-snowden-anna-politkovskaya
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,258 posts)rpannier
(24,353 posts)The organization is secretly funded by the CIA and Ukrainian fascist groups with the sole purpose of bringing down that champion of democracy, freedom, supporter of the oppressed and giver of rainbows and unicorns Putin
The Magistrate
(95,272 posts)They will claim that human rights bodies in Russia are simply creatures of the C.I.A., that they exist only because of funding from the United States, and are aimed at imposing the will of the United States on Russia, if not at the outright overthrow of Putin himself, and probably all in the interest of preventing competition with the dollar in energy markets or seizing Russia's resources, or preventing an alliance of Russia with China and India and Brazil that will replace the United States as global hegemon if brought to fruition, and prevention of which is the chief and desperate aim of U.S. foreign policy....
"Stan Mack Funnies --- all dialogue guaranteed overheard verbatim."
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Victoria Nuland's Nazi Cookies!