Giving Peace a Chance: Pushing Back on a Chilling Russian Censorship Law. “#Russia is using the law as a weapon against its own citizens to silence all criticism of its…aggression against #Ukraine… One Russian human rights organization…is pushing back…[with] a battery of complaints to the Russian Constitutional Court. …International human rights organizations & legal scholars…are preparing…#AmicusCuriae briefs…” | Catherine Morris & Lauren McCarthy, Slaw https://www.slaw.ca/2023/05/23/giving-peace-a-chance-pushing-back-on-a-chilling-russian-censorship-law/ @cmorris
Giving Peace a Chance: Pushing Back on a Chilling Russian Censorship Law - Slaw

Russia is using the law as a weapon against its own citizens to silence all criticism of its unlawful war of aggression against Ukraine. International attention has been focused on Russia’s high-profile criminal prosecutions of independent journalists and opposition politicians. Comparatively little attention is being paid to thousands of dissenters punished with hefty fines under […]

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