The YABLOKO party will support the March against the Anti-Magnitsky
law which will take place in Moscow on Sunday, January 13.
Activists will gather by the Izvestia paper office (by Tverskaya
metro station) at 13:30. The march along boulevards to Sakharov
Prospect will begin at 14:00.
The action got a permission from the Moscow authorities.
YABLOKO has consistently opposed the so-called Dima Yakovlev
law prohibiting Americans to adopt Russian children. YABLOKO
leader Sergei Mitrokhin called this law "profoundly anti-human."
"Adopting the Anti-Magnitsky law all the branches of
power demonstrated their willingness to protect their corrupt
officials in such a way that the whole world was left horrified,"
Mitrokhin said.
"We oppose the barbaric so-called Dima Yakovlev law.
We believe that with this law represents a kind of a human
shield of orphans put by the government around its corrupt
officials. That is, our government has virtually told the
world: we will protect our corrupt officials so that the whole
world will tremble in terror," YABLOKO leader Sergei
Mitrokhin said to journalists.
According to Mitrokhin, the Anti-Magnitsky law shows that
our government is cannibalistic in nature, therefore all the
forces of our society that are in favor of a civilized development
must unite so that to say 'no' to the cannibalistic state".
He also stressed that it was important that there were no
Nazis or leftists among the organizers of the March.
In December 2012 YABLOKOs MPs in the Legislative Assemblies
of St. Petersburg and the Pskov Region opposed the bill, but
were not supported by the parliamentary majority. Activists
from the Youth Yabloko conducted a series of one person pickets
by the Federation Council on the day the senators had to examine
the law. The slogan of the action was "Children are frozen
in the Cold War". Four party members were detained by
police and now they face large fines or community service
works.
See also:
Human
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