Amnesty: The situation with the fundamental freedoms in Russia is getting worse – BBC Russian

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Image caption According to Amnesty International, the Russian government in 2015 continued to expand their control over the the media and the internet

The international human rights organization Amnesty International has once again stated the serious deterioration of the human rights situation in Russia in the past year.

The annual report of the organization on the situation of human rights in the world, Russia is the country where “freedom of expression and peaceful assembly is still severely limited”.

according to Amnesty International, the Russian government continued to expand . its control over the media and the internet

“Most of the media in their editorial policy on a step did not depart from the official point of view on key events within the country and in the world”, – stated in the report

<. p> NGOs continue to face in Russia from harassment in the past year, fully experienced the effect of the law “on foreign agents”.

The report’s authors remind us that four people were brought to trial on another new law, which has introduced criminal liability for repeated violations of the law on rallies.

In the North Caucasus human rights activists note a decrease in the number of attacks by armed groups. However, as stated in the report, Amnesty, the law enforcement agencies in the region still rely on power operation, practiced kidnapping, illegal detention, torture and ill-treatment of detainees.

The work of journalists and human rights defenders in the North Caucasus is linked harassment, threats and violence, and including on the part of the authorities.

As for the refugees, whose new report from Amnesty International generally calls the main problem now facing the international community, for the first nine months of 2015 Russia granted a total of 96 petitions for refugee status, and, as noted by human rights defenders, including receiving it no Syrian citizen.

in the chapter of the report devoted to Ukraine, separately described the human rights situation in the annexed Russian Crimea, where the new government restricted freedom of expression, assembly and association

“Most of the Crimean Tatars have suffered”, -., Amnesty says. The authorities closed their media, prohibits activities and continued repression of the representative body of the Crimean Tatars -. Majlis

Amnesty International also reminds about the fate of the opponents of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Oleg Sentsova and Alexander Kol’chenko, who last year was sentenced to . Russia on terrorism charges

“The trial was unfair and was based on the evidence given, allegedly under torture”, – says the report

a great place in the report of Amnesty International. devoted to the conflict in Syria. Human rights activists condemned the Russian authorities for their failure to recognize that as a result of air strikes in Syria killed civilians.

At the end of last year, Amnesty published a separate report, stating that the end of September the Russian military campaign in Syria killed at least 200 civilians and led to massive and unjustified destruction.

Russian Ministry of defense then called these statements “stamps and fake”.