Russian authorities have taken punitive action against three local human rights defenders and their organizations in recent days, Human Rights Watch said on September 27. The authorities imposed arbitrary, draconian bureaucratic penalties against the groups, including through the “undesirable foreign organizations” law in one case.
Human Rights Watch: 3 human rights groups penalized
This photo shows the inside of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Feb. 7, 2019.
