In Moscow sealed the office of Amnesty International – RBC

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In Moscow, sealed the office of Amnesty International, indoors changed the locks and turned off the light, said RBC representative of the international human rights organization Alexander Artemyev. In the city property Department, told RBC that are not yet ready to answer the question about the reasons of opening the office

in the morning the staff of Amnesty found sealed its office in Moscow. This was first reported in a Facebook employee Ivan Kondratenko. “The office is locked, locks are broken (and newly inserted), it says that you need to contact the Department of city property of Moscow with a letter to take things,” he wrote.

the representative of the organization Alexander Artemyev told RBC that Amnesty takes office at the Department of state property of Moscow for the past 20 years. “We have not received any warnings or explanations. We have been in contact with officials every year, when discussing the question of the Board. We always pay the rent last paid in October,” he said.

According to Artemyev, on Wednesday, about nine in the morning, before the start of the working day, without any warning, the office was opened and in the room was replaced all the locks, to install a new one, the alarm shut off with electricity. “Even before the 11 a.m. food, the energy saving system which is offline work for two hours. On the sealed door is the seal of the state property and given contact numbers that do not answer. The notice says that on removal of the property must apply to the Department on the street Bakhrushina, 20. Inside the office facing the camera, but access to them is not. The employee is now in the stairwell, and we are awaiting a response from the Department,” he said.

the Kremlin had no information on the sealing of the office of the international human rights organization Amnesty International in Moscow. Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said: “the first time I hear about it. I absolutely do not have any information in this regard” (quoted by “Interfax”).

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Sand suggested “there’s some information that you may have the office staff,” and advised to contact them.

the Department’s internal and external communications of the Department of municipal property of RBC said that in the course of the situation of human rights defenders, but not yet ready to answer the question about the reasons of opening the office.

Amnesty International is drawing attention to human rights violations in different countries. This February the organization, in its annual report criticized the situation with human rights in Russia. According to experts of the Amnesty, the country limited freedom of expression, Assembly and Association, and NGOs were under pressure. Human rights defenders have pointed to the problems of the LGBT movement in Russia. In addition, Amnesty was regularly criticized Russian military action in Syria, noting the bombing of the civilian population.