Goodbye, POC.
Lists of new POC compositions have been published.
I’ll say right away that a huge number of real human rights defenders’ applications fell. Not a single one (!) of them passed.
The creator of the entire institution of public control in the country, former chairman of the first Public Monitoring Committee of Moscow, Valery Borshchev, did not pass.
The founder of the Committee against Torture (recognized as a foreign agent), Igor Kalyapin, failed. And no one (!) from the anti-torture team passed.
The director of the Moscow Helsinki Group (the brainchild of the great Lyudmila Alekseeva) Svetlana Astrakhantsev did not make it.
Not one of my faithful partners in this (his activities are about to cease) composition of the PSC, Professor Pyotr Safoshin, journalist Boris Klin, human rights activist Lyubov Volkova, did not make it.
Vice President of the International Committee for Human Rights Ivan Melnikov, who was not allowed into the previous composition for being too active, did not make it.
The honest and decent Marina Litvinovich, the fighter for the rights of all the humiliated Zoya Svetova, did not pass (well, we didn’t have many illusions here).
The list could take a long time.
You won’t find ANYTHING on the Internet about most of those who passed. Neither about themselves, nor about their human rights activities.
I can’t say that all this was not entirely expected. But definitely not that much. I thought that at least a few people would leave. They didn’t leave. And they removed all journalists (this is a long-standing dream of the security forces) from the Public Monitoring Committee.
Lists of new POC compositions have been published.
I’ll say right away that a huge number of real human rights defenders’ applications fell. Not a single one (!) of them passed.
The creator of the entire institution of public control in the country, former chairman of the first Public Monitoring Committee of Moscow, Valery Borshchev, did not pass.
The founder of the Committee against Torture (recognized as a foreign agent), Igor Kalyapin, failed. And no one (!) from the anti-torture team passed.
The director of the Moscow Helsinki Group (the brainchild of the great Lyudmila Alekseeva) Svetlana Astrakhantsev did not make it.
Not one of my faithful partners in this (his activities are about to cease) composition of the PSC, Professor Pyotr Safoshin, journalist Boris Klin, human rights activist Lyubov Volkova, did not make it.
Vice President of the International Committee for Human Rights Ivan Melnikov, who was not allowed into the previous composition for being too active, did not make it.
The honest and decent Marina Litvinovich, the fighter for the rights of all the humiliated Zoya Svetova, did not pass (well, we didn’t have many illusions here).
The list could take a long time.
You won’t find ANYTHING on the Internet about most of those who passed. Neither about themselves, nor about their human rights activities.
I can’t say that all this was not entirely expected. But definitely not that much. I thought that at least a few people would leave. They didn’t leave. And they removed all journalists (this is a long-standing dream of the security forces) from the Public Monitoring Committee.
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