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Russian Foreign Minister demands to set Russian schools’ defender Gaponenko free

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Russian Foreign Minister demands to set Russian schools’ defender Gaponenko free


25.04.2018


Russia demands of the Latvian authorities to set human rights defender Alexander Gaponenko free immediately, RIA Novosti reports. Russian Foreign Ministry is sure that Riga’s actions violate the international legislation. According to the Head of Department for Relations with Compatriots Abroad Oleg Malginov, Riga’s actions contradict basic principles at the foundation of the European Union and infringe the human rights and the rights of national minorities.

Diplomats have emphasized that having detained Alexander Gaponenko, Latvia brightly demonstrated a gap between declaration of democracy and human rights and real political methods.

Note that Alexander Gaponenko was arrested after his posts in social networks. Several days before his arrest he warned that Washington is preparing a provocation in Riga directed against the Russian activists. Now he is suspected of anti-state activities. The court chose detention in custody as a pre-trial restriction measure. Gaponenko claimed a hunger strike as a sign of protest against abuse of power by the Latvian authorities.

Oleg Malginov called the detention of the human rights defender a demonstrative provocation undertaken to daunt the Russian-speaking community of the country and another attempt to ban freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of information. Russian Foreign Ministry is sure that such actions are unacceptable for the democratic society.

He has assured that Russian authorities will closely follow the reaction of the European highly-educated society on this illegal detention.

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