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| Human rights in Russia have ‘significantly' worsened since Ukraine war began, UN-backed expert says |
| 2023-09-19 |
| [AP] Mariana Katzarova, the special rapporteur on Russia’s rights situation mandated by the Human Rights Council, chronicled the domestic crackdown that has largely targeted critics of Putin’s war as well as other opposition voices in Russia. Her report, made public on Monday, is separate from another probe by U.N.-backed investigators that has accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine. The report cited figures last month from OVD-Info, which tracks human rights violations, indicating that more than 20,000 people were detained between February last year and June for participating in anti-war protests. More than 600 criminal lawsuits were initiated against "anti-war activity," it said. The report said over half of all protesters who were arrested for what it called "peaceful anti-war activism" were women. Katzarova said she had received "credible reports" of a litany of rights violations including torture, allegations of rape and sexual violence, and threats of sexual abuse by law enforcement officers against both men and women. None of those cases had been officially investigated, she said. |
| Posted by:Enver Slager8035 |
| #11 IMHO, the human rights of all Americans were trampled under Joe Biden's foot in November 2020. Now he's sending Ukrainians and Russians into a meat grinder in hopes that he can win a US Naval base in Sevastopol. You think all those Ukrainians volunteered for that? Did they even get to vote on it? So, yeah, you wanna talk about human rights? What about all those "unaccompanied minors" who get smuggled across our southern border? What happens to their human rights? What about all the schools, businesses and churches that were shut down in this country for the Wuhan flu? We could go on like this all day. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-09-19 13:32 |
| #10 No McDonald's or child sexual mutilation? half of all protesters who were arrested for what it called "peaceful anti-war activism" were women. Half the world's population is woman....tut, tut. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-09-19 13:08 |
| #9 Guess it depends on your outlook: "Trials and Tribulations!" or "Challenges and Opportunities!" |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-19 09:55 |
| #8 ^Aren't you? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-19 09:49 |
| #7 You sound so disappointed Grom. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-19 08:54 |
| #6 Another bureaucratic report that found what it set out to find. I'm shocked. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-09-19 08:48 |
| #5 Do protestors get 14 years in prison for rattling a fence? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-09-19 08:42 |
| #4 ^Because Russia is a dictatorship run by Vlad the Terrible, whereas USA - where every white hetero male is a criminal what haven't been caught YET - is a Republic envisioned by its founders. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-19 04:41 |
| #3 Wonder why this is suggestively exclusive to Russia? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-19 02:08 |
| #2 If that's what gets you off. Russians have other things to worry about like: torture, allegations of rape and sexual violence, and threats of sexual abuse by law enforcement officers against both men and women. None of those cases had been officially investigated, she said. |
| Posted by: Enver Slager8035 2023-09-19 01:25 |
| #1 What about the law against surgical gender reassigment, Mariana? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-19 01:07 |