Russian human rights activists paint a grim picture of the situation in your country. “The state is experimenting on how far he can go with its repression,” says Valery Borshchev of the Moscow Helsinki group.
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Two recent cases are there that prepare the human rights activists. The Anastasia Shevtchenko in Rostov. The coordinator of the non-governmental organization “Open Russia” is under house arrest, because she was allegedly a member of an “undesirable organization”. The human rights activists in Moscow to hold these and other charges for constructed.
“Inhuman Act”
The fate of Anastasia Shevtchenko is tragic. When her daughter had to leave suddenly due to a suspected Bronchitis in the hospital, asked the mother the authorities to be pre-of their daughter, which they refused for a long time. It was only when the state of the subsidiary deteriorated in the ICU, after they gave. However, Anastasija Shevtchenko was too late to say good-bye to her daughter. The girl who previously had health problems, died of heart failure.
Even after her death, the mother is under house arrest. Anastasija Shevtchenko should not even leave the apartment, when she had with her two other children to the doctor, deplored the human rights activist Zoe Svetova: “The state is inhumane,” she says. You and others are calling for the immediate release of Anastasija Shevtchenko.
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Protest against illegal waste disposal
The same applies to the environmental activists Vjetscheslav Yegorov, in Kolomna under house arrest. The father of three children, belongs to a group of citizens, who are fighting every day, most of the rubbish from the capital to the idyllic Kolomna and not properly disposed of. In a press conference in Moscow, human rights activist Alla Frolova defendant his arrest. She criticized the behavior of the secret service, the FSB. This. a few days ago, the homes of 15 families in Kolomna searches, in the morning between 5 and 6 o’clock “In the process, they seized Computer, hard drives, phones and credit cards but also computer games from children.”
Both Vjetscheslav Yegorov, as well as Anastas Shevtchenko would be prosecuted for political reasons, said Natalya Zvjagina of Amnesty International. The well-known human rights activist Lev Ponomarev thinks that the people would be followed in Kolomna and anywhere else, even though they had done nothing illegal. Last December, he was also for two weeks in prison.
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Unequal behaviour of the authorities
Igor Yakovenko, a Journalist and human rights activist, said the Russian Prosecutor General’s office of using double standards. In the state-controlled Russian television, people were coming regularly to the word, the hatred against the neighbouring state of Ukraine stoked “and in breach of Russian laws,” he said. However, in this case, the authorities would look the other way. He suggested that a list should be created with the names of all of those who serve the current “Regime and human rights violations commit”. You should answer at a later date before an international court for their actions.
“The security forces have to get a ‘carte blanche’ from the Kremlin,” says Valery Borshchev of the Moscow Helsinki group. He believes that it will soon be in Russia, a wave of further human rights violations. “The state does not scare you to keep track of it for people that have nothing wrong,” says Zoja Svetova.
The activists agreed that The reprisals reminded always of the persecution of civil rights activists in the Soviet times.