Human rights in Russia have 'significantly' worsened since Ukraine war began, UN-backed expert says

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

Updated 5:32 AM CDT, September 18, 2023

GENEVA (AP) — The rights situation in Russia has “significantly deteriorated” since President Vladimir Putin launched his war against Ukraine in February last year, an expert commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body said in her first report on the country on Monday.

Mariana Katzarova, the special rapporteur on Russia’s rights situation mandated by the Human Rights Council, chronicled the domestic crackdown that has largely targeted critics of Putin’s war as well as other opposition voices in Russia.

Her report, made public on Monday, is separate from another probe by U.N.-backed investigators that has accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine.

Never before has the council authorized a rights expert to examine rights issues in one of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council: Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.




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[Lovie777]

1. When was it good?............

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[Lonestarblue]

2. It was a huge mistake to allow Russia to take the USSR seat on the Security Council. It would

have been better to simply decrease the number to four since the fifth one no longer existed.

[erronis]

3. Agree. The rump USSR could go back to the medium-sized, smaller economy countries

wanting to vie for a seat on the Security Council.

The west has allowed itself to feel that the Kremlin is as important as it pretended to be in the early 1900s.

[Fresh Water Falling]

4. HOW???

I mean, seriously!

[SouthernDem4ever]

5. In Russia, human rights are measured by how many people aren't poisoned for their beliefs

or what they say in public.