U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of efforts to roll back human rights in the former Soviet Union as she met with 11 activists from the region on December 7.
RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel spoke with one of the activists, Oleksandra Delemenchuk of the Kyiv-based Center for Civil Liberties, about her impressions of the meeting on the sidelines of the OSCE conference in Dublin, Ireland.
RFE/RL: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is reported to have said that governments in the former Soviet space are “becoming much more aggressive” in trying to stifle dissent and prevent the free expression and exchange of views. Did she give some examples of what this means?
Oleksandra Delemenchuk: She gave some examples during her speech and these were examples of different countries [including] Azerbaijan, Belarus, and the Russian Federation. Recently in many countries of our region different laws have been adopted…targeting human rights NGOs and individual human rights defenders.
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