Russian activist urges UK to publish human rights blacklist

BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union

30 April 2012

Text of report by Gazprom-owned, editorially independent Russian news agency Ekho Moskvy

Moscow, 30 April: Britain should publish the list of people barred from entering the country because of alleged abuse of human rights, executive director of the movement For Human Rights Lev Ponomarev said on the air of Ekho Moskvy radio.

“If it is a state security department [as received] initiative, it will not be public. It is important in this situation that the list be published. Otherwise there is not much point,” Ponomarev said.

In his opinion, the special list should include “all the people who handled the case of the Hermitage Capital fund lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy, who died in a pre-trial detention centre [in Moscow in 2009]”. “The judges who regularly bring in rulings on administrative detentions in Moscow should also be included there. This will create a big public response, as these are, after all, trials that are completely made to order,” Ponomarev said.

Britain earlier announced that it was imposing a ban on the entry to the kingdom for people accused of serious human rights abuses. This rule will affect the nationals of states outside the European Union.

[A ban on entry to the UK for people suspected of human rights abuses can be an efficient measure against the Russian elite, Ekho Moskvy news agency later quoted political scientist Stanislav Belkovskiy telling Ekho Moskvy radio. He said current government members, top officials from the presidential administration and oligarchs, including some already settled in London, could fall foul of these sanctions. “The only question is, who will compile the list, and how,” he added.] hairy girls hairy girl https://www.zp-pdl.com zp-pdl.com микрозайм онлайн