Less less right

The situation in compliance with human rights in Russia in 2006 worsened significantly. Such a conclusion is contained in the annual report of the human rights organization "International Amnesty". The document will be officially published on Wednesday.

As Vedomosti writes, the report says that in Russia the pressure on the “independent civil society” increased: the new legislation on NPOs opens up the possibility of arbitrariness and distracts resources from important programs. The authorities prevented the peaceful exercise of rights to freedom of assembly, human rights activists believe. They especially note the struggle with anti-globalists during the Eight summit in St. Petersburg and the dispersal of a rally with human casualties in Dagestan in April.

The document mentioned that journalists were intimidated and attacks. Separately noted the murder of Anna Politkovskaya.

"International Amnesty" noted the torture used by police in relation to the detainees. The prosecutor’s office, the report said, was not able to fight with the use of torture by law enforcement officers.

The Russian authorities could not properly counteract racism and discrimination on the basis of nationality or sexual orientation, human rights activists believe and gives an example to the mild sentences to the killers of the Tajik girl and the clash of last year's gay parade in Moscow. The violation of the rights of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev did not go unnoticed, although the organization does not consider them prisoners of conscience.

According to the newspaper, in previous reports, the International Amnesty was concentrated mainly on human rights violations in Chechnya and pressure from human rights defenders. This time, human rights activists have much more complaints about Russia.