Moscow’s city court (click here) has ruled to disband an indigenous people’s rights group almost 20 years after its founding, the latest in a series of NGO shutdowns that critics see as retaliation for their activities.
Russian authorities blacklisted the Center for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North/Russian.
Indigenous Training Center (CSIPN/RITC) as a “foreign agent” in 2015. Founded in 2001 to provide wide-ranging assistance to the peoples of the Russian North, Siberia and the Far East, the NGO renounced its foreign funding and was taken off the “foreign agent” list last year....
Russia has imprisoned a Jehovah’s Witness from Siberia (click here) to six years in prison on charges of “extremism,” the independent Tayga.info news website reported Tuesday.
Sergei Klimov was detained in the city of Tomsk in June 2018 on suspicion of being an “de facto leader” of a local branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Russia outlawed the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2017, making it a criminal offense for the group’s estimated 175,000 worshippers living in the country to meet or distribute literature....
YouTube needs to ban anything Russia and give them a taste of their own medicine.
