In Russia, the situation of government critics did not improve a year after the exchange of prisonersThe human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) said on Thursday. According to the DPA report, TASR reports this.
Russia, Belarus and the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia and Norway exchanged the largest number of prisoners from the end of the Cold War in Ankara last August. The West was aimed from the exchange from Russia and Belarus by 16 people, in the opposite direction ten people – eight adults and two children.
According to the AI Secretary of AI in Germany, Julie Duchrowa, people in Russia are still persecuted for the exercise of their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful protest. She pointed out that the Russian Parliament recently adopted laws to facilitate the prosecution of activists.
The Lower Chamber of the Russian Parliament (State Duma) on 22 July approved A controversial law prohibiting the search for “extremist” online content. The Russian Mass Media Control Office (Roskomnadzor) subsequently blocked access to tens of thousands of websites.
Legislation focuses on people who consciously seek alleged extremist materials on the Internet. Millions of Russians to circumvent censorship use virtual private networks (VPN). There is a fine of up to 5000 rubles (EUR 55) for violating the law.
Institutions whose work in Russia is prohibited for their alleged extremist activity is the Fund of Combating Corruption Founded by the poor critic of Kremlin Alexei Navaľný, the “international LGBT movement” or the American technology giant Meta Platforms.
