India, Oct. 27 -- Amnesty International said a prosecutor’s office in Moscow is about to initiate criminal proceedings on “extremism” charges against prisoners’ rights advocate Anna Karetnikova of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, who is living in exile, according to a statement by Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director.
Amnesty International reaction
Marie Struthers said Amnesty International had “long warned” that Russia’s “vague and overly broad anti-extremism legislation” would be used to criminalize lawful human rights work, and said those fears were being realized with the criminal case against Karetnikova.
Struthers said it was “the first time such charges have been used against an indivi...