MOSCOW – Russian rights activists say that a new law drafted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Cabinet would allow authorities to label any government critic a traitor.
The draft extends the definition of treason from breaching Russia's external security to damage to the nation's constitutional order, sovereignty or territorial integrity.
A group of prominent rights activists, including head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alexeyeva and head of Civic Assistance Svetlana Gannushkina, said in a statement Wednesday that passage of the bill would return the nation's justice system to the times of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's purges.
The government systematically rolled back Russia's post-Soviet political freedoms during Putin's eight-year presidential tenure.
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احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
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you got it backward
by no_name (not verified) on Wed Dec 17, 2008 09:10 AM PSTThe flow is more like this:
USSR --> MEK --> Revolution -->killing innocent people by MEK --> IRI
Birds of a feather FLY together
by Shameful (not verified) on Wed Dec 17, 2008 08:35 AM PSTNo wonder Antari and Co. love Putin and Russia so much and go deaf mute when it comes to Putin/Russia slaughtering Muslim Chehchens.
Of course, you will not hear any criticism here coming from Antisemitic Zionism fighting IRI sympathizers when it comes to Putin or Russia or from the morally bankrupt defunct Commies and loser leftists who still dream of a Communist government emerging in Iran.