The defender of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the North Sulandzig asked the political forces in the United States

The defender of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the North from the Primorsky Territory Pavel Sulandzig asked for political asylum in the United States because of the persecution and threats from the FSB. This was reported on the website of the Yabloko party.

Now Sulandziga and his family are in the United States and is waiting for the authorities to provide him with refugee status.

According to the human rights activist, he left the country due to the fact that the authorities were fabricated against him, putting pressure on his friends and relatives.

Sulandzig claims that a criminal case was opened against him at the request of some people who considered themselves representatives of indigenous peoples. They asked to check the activities of the human rights activist for inappropriate expenses. Nevertheless, the audit, which was carried out in the summer of 2016 during the election campaign, when Sulandzig was a candidate for State Duma deputies from Yabloko, did not reveal violations in his actions.

On December 11, 2016, in Moscow, the police detained the brother of Paul, the director of the Center for Assistance to the indigenous peoples of the North Rodion Sulandzig. Sulandziga was supposed to participate in the seminar of the Forum of Indigenous Peoples. He had a search at his house, after which the activist was taken to OP "Konkovo". By evening, he was released, leaving "to study" the Sulendzigi laptop. According to Pavel Sulandzigi, his brother was interrogated as a witness in a criminal case that was factory against him.

In September 2014, Rodion Sulandzig, among other delegates , was not released from the country to the UN conference on the issues of indigenous peoples in New York. At the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo at the passport control, he was damaged by several pages in the passport.

The human rights activist claims that recently other people associated with him have been subjected to pressure. So, according to Sulandzigi, the FSB officers put pressure on a businessman familiar with him to force him to write a statement about fraud from the human rights activist. According to Sulendzigi, the head of the Primorsky Territory personally convinced this businessman to do this.

In addition, recently the son of Sulandzigi, who was military service in the suburbs, was transferred to a “hot point” to the Caucasus. According to the political emigrant, the commander of the military unit admitted that the order to transfer from the FSB.

Also recently, the human rights activist Dmitry Zhezhkov asked for political asylum in Norway, explaining this by the fact that the FSB demanded evidence of the work of Sulandzigi for foreign funds "opposing the interests of Russia."

Sulandziga is one of the founders of the Association of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of Russia, the Batani Little Little Democratic Eastern Fund, Deputy Chairman of the UN Business and Human Rights of the UN working group. In March last year, the Batani Foundation Minusta included in the register of Foreign Agents .