Russia: Russian NGOs face new form of persecution

Index AI : EUR 46/014/2013
Date de publication : 30 avril 2013
Catégorie(s) : Russie

A Moscow court has fined a Russian NGO almost 10,000 USD. It is the first organization to be fined under a repressive new law which requires organizations in receipt of foreign funding and engaged in “political activities” to describe themselves as “foreign agents”.