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Healing Russia - Manifesting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in the Russian Federation
Dr Mark O'Doherty
Paperback. Lulu.com 2021-04-17.
ISBN 9781667154480
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Publisher description
This study addresses blatant violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in Russia. This includes police violence and the murder of lawyers, activists and government critics - who have been harassed, imprisoned and even killed in Russia. These include numerous Putin critics who have ended up dead - such as Anna Politkovskaya, Stanislav Markelov, Boris Nemtsov, Natalia Estemirova, Sergei Yushenkov, Alexander Litvinenko, Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Lesin and many more. Soul survivor of these cowardly killings is Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. After surviving an FSB assassination attempt in 2020, Navalny was sentenced for over two years in jail. The aim of this unjust and inhuman imprisonment is to break Alexei Navalny - Russia's penal colony system being a blunt instrument used by the Kremlin to break the spirit of political opponents, marginalize critics and to remove them from the playing field - a testament of injustice, lawlessness and tyranny by the Putin government. In a historic joint statement delivered to the UN Human Rights Council, 45 countries voiced alarm at the deteriorating situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Russia - manifested in particular by the unlawful detention, arrest and imprisonment of Alexei Navalny. The UN called for the immediate and unconditional release of Navalny and all others unlawfully or arbitrarily detained in Russia - so that fundamental freedoms can be restored in Russia. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) also requested the immediate release of Alexei Navalny, which Russian authorities ought to comply with, as Russia is a member of the Council of Europe rights body. Also, Navalny's personal doctor Anastasia Vasilyeva and three more doctors, including a cardiologist, warned that Alexei Navalny risks cardiac arrest "any minute" as his health has rapidly deteriorated. They said he had to be examined immediately "taking into account the blood tests and his recent poisoning". More than 70 prominent international writers, artists and academics, including Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave and Benedict Cumberbatch, have called on President Putin to ensure that Navalny receives proper treatment immediately. Therefore it is in President Vladimir Putin's best interest to release Alexei Navalny, and all others unlawfully or arbitrarily detained in Russia - and allow Alexei Navalny to run for election, so that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be manifested in Russia
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