In their place he placed in the Council, by the same decree which he signed, those who promote the policy of war in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has removed ten members, mostly human rights activists and journalists, from the presidential Human Rights Council. In their place he placed in the Council, by the same decree which he signed, those who promote the policy of war in Russia.
Among those deleted are the former chairman of the “Committee Against Torture” Igor Kaliapin, the secretary of the St. Petersburg Council for the Defense of Human Rights Natalya Yevdokimova, the directors of the faculties of Moscow University Alexander Asmolov and Ivan Zasursky, as well as the director of the information – analytical center Sova (Sava) Alexander Verkhovsky and journalists Nikolai Svanitze and Yekaterina Vikokurova. Andrey Babushkin, who was removed from the presidium of the Human Rights Council, passed away on May 22, 2022.
Kommersant newspaper had earlier written that Council members are preparing at the annual meeting with Putin to ask him about “foreign agents”, penalties for defaming the Russian military, a total ban on anti-war demonstrations, as well as the recruitment and recruitment of prisoners by the private company Wagner as well as the video posted on social media showing the execution with a sledgehammer of a prisoner named Yevgeny Nuzin who had been recruited by Wagner.
The president of the Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, said earlier that the meeting with the president could take place without discussing the video. “We don’t need to get hysterical.”
On November 13, the channel on the Telegram messaging application of the Private Military Company Wagner published a video of the killing of Yevgeny Nuzin. In the video Nuzin says that in September he decided to fight on the side of Ukraine, while in November he was kidnapped from Kyiv. Then he woke up in a basement, where he was told that he was “going to be tried”. Then in the video someone smashes Nuzin’s head with a sledgehammer. Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the private military company Wagner, also known as “Putin’s chef”, called the video of the execution “an excellent directorial work”.
According to the RTVI website citing sources of the Human Rights Council, the chairman of the Council despite the President of the Russian Federation Valery Fadeev refused to intervene in the case with the video of the execution of the former prisoner and Wagner mercenary Yevgeny Nuzin. “It is doubtful whether he will make a formal request to the relevant authorities of justice,” the site points out.
The removal of a number of Human Rights Council members comes days after calls for the Council’s president to review the video of the killing of prisoner Yevgeny Nuzin. Among those who addressed the president of the Council were Vinokourova and Kaliapin.
New members of the Council for Human Rights became Komsomolskaya Pravda’ journalist Alexander Koch who writes about the war in Ukraine according to the recommendations of the Ministry of Defense, the writer Nikolai Ivanov, the competent secretary of the Moscow Public Oversight Committee Alexei Melnikov, the member of the board of the social movement “Free Donbas” Yelena Siskina.
“Actually I have nothing to comment on. The president has the right to renew the Human Rights Council. I expected this, because I did not hide my anti-war attitude, and I thought that this would happen sooner. This, of course, limits my possibilities, but I repeat that this was expected,” historian and journalist Nikolai Svanitze told NovayaGazeta.Europe.
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