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4th November 2013, 14:54 | #111 |
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Exactly, there is no right to protest in Russia now.
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4th November 2013, 20:06 | #112 |
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4th November 2013, 21:13 | #113 |
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Sounds like Putin is purging just like Stalin did.
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Comparing Putin to Stalin for throwing a couple of truly horrible singers in jail is like picking up a grain of sand and comparing it to the Sahara desert.
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Careful, we don't want this thread closed thanks
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19th December 2013, 01:14 | #116 |
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Pussy Riot, Greenpeace crew may go free on Russia amnesty bill
December 18, 2013 usatoday.com MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's parliament on Wednesday passed an amnesty bill that will likely apply to the 30-member crew of a Greenpeace ship detained after an Arctic protest, but it wasn't immediately clear if and when the activists would be allowed to leave the country. The amnesty, which also would likely free the two jailed members of the Pussy Riot punk band, has been largely viewed as the Kremlin's attempt to soothe criticism of Russia's human rights records ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February. But opposition lawmakers argued it doesn't go nearly far enough and the complicated legislation appeared to leave many questions open. The State Duma on Wednesday voted 446-0 in favor of the carefully tailored bill, which mostly applies to those who haven't committed violent crimes, first-time offenders, minors and women with small children. Lawmakers said they expect about 2,000 people to be released from jail. The Duma adopted last-minute amendments to the bill to include suspects of hooliganism who are still awaiting trial, a provision that could apply to the crew of a Greenpeace ship facing those charges after their September protest in the Arctic. The activists, who spent two months in jail before they were granted bail, were initially accused of piracy but authorities later changed that charge to hooliganism. The nation's top investigative agency has said, however, that the probe into the incident isn't over yet and that some of the crew members could face additional charges, such as assaulting a law enforcement official, so it has remained unclear whether the Greenpeace crew would be pardoned. Greenpeace said it hopes that the amnesty bill will allow foreign crew members of the Arctic ship to get exit visas and leave Russia. The crew members insist the charges against them were bogus. "I might soon be going home to my family, but I should never have been charged and jailed in the first place," the ship's captain, Peter Willcox, said in a statement. The bill is also expected to release Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, the jailed members of the Pussy Riot punk band who are serving two years in prison on charges of hooliganism for an irreverent anti-Kremlin protest at Moscow's main cathedral. They both have small children. However, the legislation doesn't contain names, and there has been no official confirmation that Tolokonnikova and Alekhina could be released. The amnesty does not cover former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who has been widely described as Russia's top political prisoner, and only eight out of 26 defendants who took part in a 2012 protest rally on the Bolotnaya square in Moscow that ended in scuffles between protesters and riot police. Opposition lawmaker Dmitry Gudkov said the amnesty bill "has buried all hopes of human rights activists and families of political prisoners that their children and family members will be set free." The amnesty will go into effect as soon as the bill is published in the government newspaper, which is expected to happen on Thursday. But it allows authorities a six-month period to carry it out, meaning some of the prisoners could in theory wait weeks or months before getting released. Prisoners would apply to prison administration for amnesty, and officials would decide whether they were eligible. Those of them who committed disciplinary offenses behind bars could be denied amnesty. Lawyers and families of the Pussy Riot members insist that everyone eligible for the release ought to be allowed to walk free as soon as the bill is published. Their prison terms end in March. Pyotr Verzilov, Tolokonnikova's husband, told The Associated Press he believes there is nothing to stop his wife from being released if the bill is published on Thursday. |
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Pussy Riot Member Is Freed From Prison
Russia Expected to Release a Second Member of Punk Group Later Monday wsj.com By Lukas I. Alpert MOSCOW—A member of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot was released from prison Monday and a second jailed member was expected to be set free later in the day as part of an amnesty bill signed into law last week, a lawyer for the two women said. Maria Alyokhina left a penitentiary in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, about 250 miles east of Moscow, around 9 a.m. Monday. She was meeting with human rights activists before heading back to Moscow, lawyer Irina Khrunova said. A second member of the group, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, is expected to be released from a remote prison medical facility in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk later in the afternoon, Ms. Khrunova said. Ms. Alyokhina’s release comes less than three months before the two women were set to complete two-year sentences on hooliganism convictions stemming from a 2012 anti-Kremlin protest in Moscow’s main cathedral. The severity of their sentences had made them some of the highest-profile prisoners in Russia, with Kremlin critics calling their prosecution politically motivated. The move also follows the release of Russia’s best-known prisoner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, from prison on Friday after President Vladimir Putin gave a him a pardon. Mr. Khodorkovsky—who served more than 10 years behind bars for a variety of convictions on economic crimes that supporters had deemed politically driven—immediately flew to Germany to meet with his family. He said he didn’t intend to return to Russia any time soon but would rather work toward helping political prisoners around the world. The Pussy Riot members were released under an amnesty bill proposed by Mr. Putin and passed by parliament last week. The bill, which was designed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the country’s post-Soviet constitution, allows Russia to settle a number of high-profile cases that have become headaches as the country finds itself increasingly under a global spotlight ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in February. |
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23rd December 2013, 12:47 | #119 |
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One of them just became free and immediately met with human rights activists.
Hasn't she learn anything? They don't like people who stir up trouble in Russia. She is looking to get incarcerated again and the next time, she won't be so lucky to be freed again. She needs to just go home and stay low key. |
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23rd December 2013, 14:52 | #120 |
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They're out!
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