Suomalais-venäläinen kansalaisfoorumi vetoaa Putiniin poliittisen sorron lopettamiseksi Venäjällä
Tiedotustilaisuus
Aika: Keskiviikkona 27.05.2009 klo 14:00
Paikka: Eduskunnan lisärakennus, Kansalaisinfo[:]
Suomalais-venäläinen kansalaisfoorumi vetoaa Venäjän pääministeri Vladimir Putiniin ennen hänen Suomen vierailuaan poliittisen sorron lopettamiseksi Venäjällä. Ihmisten vangitseminen heidän poliittisten katsomusten ja oikeutetun kansalaistoiminnan takia tulee lopettaa.
Alkuviikosta Helsingissä pidettiin kolmas vuotuinen FINROSFORUM 2009 -seminaari, jossa muun muassa entiset poliittiset vangit kertoivat räikeistä poliittisia ja ihmisoikeusaktivisteja vastaan kohdistuneista
ihmisoikeusloukkauksista.
Paikalla tiedotustilaisuudessa ovat FINROSFORUM 2009 -seminaariin osallistuneet asianajaja Mihail Trepashkin, ihmisoikeusaktivisti Jelena Sannikova, oppositioaktivisti Sergei Aksjonov ja toimittaja
Oksana Tshelysheva.
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MIKHAIL TREPASHKIN is a Moscow attorney and former FSB colonel, who was imprisoned following his investigation into the Moscow apartment bombings in 1999. He was released in November 2007 with the expiration of his four-year prison term. Since his release, Mr Trepashkin has defended several people persecuted for their political activities. More information at trepashkin.ru.
YELENA SANNIKOVA is a Moscow-based human rights defender. She was one of the last political prisoners of the USSR who was sentenced for publishing an undergound (“samizdat”) magazine. Ms Sannikova is an outspoken journalist and a regular contributor to Grani.Ru and The Daily Journal (ej.ru). She voices her support for political prisoners in today’s Russia.
SERGEY AKSENOV is Chairman of the Election Committee of the Russian opposition’s proto-parliament, the National Assembly (nationalassembly.ru), head of the presidential election campaign of the leader of the banned National Bolshevik Party (nazbol.ru) Eduard Limonov, and Coordinator of the Russian Union of Prisoners (zeki.su).
OKSANA CHELYSHEVA is Deputy Executive Director of the Nizhny Novgorod-based Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, which was refused registration in Russia. The society has since been registered in Helsinki. The organisation is active in protecting the rights of Russia’s Chechen minority and promoting interethnic dialogue. Ms Chelysheva’s activities span across the wide spectrum of human rights work in today’s Russia.
