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Ombudsman
St.Petersburg, Dec. 24, RIA Novosti. Alexander Shishlov, Human
Rights Commissioner in St. Petersburg, considers the adoption
of amendments to the draft law "On measures against persons
involved in violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms,
rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation"
prohibiting the adoption of Russian orphans by U.S. citizens,
immoral.
On December 6, 2012, the U.S. Senate adopted the Magnitsky
Act on visa sanctions against the Russian citizens involved,
according to Congressmen, in violation on human rights. The
State Duma, in response, prepared the Dima Yakovlev Law. On
Friday the State Duma adopted in the third reading the law
introducing, in particular, a ban on the adoption of Russian
children by U.S. citizens and extends the validity of the
document onto citizens of all countries violating the rights
of Russian citizens, not just on Americans.
"The adoption of the amendments prohibiting adoptions
of orphaned Russian children by U.S. citizens seems to me
a very cynical act. The authors of the amendments virtually
propose to apply "sanctions" not against the individuals
involved in human rights violations (which, as follows from
its title the draft law targets at), but against Russian children
who can not find a family in Russia at present, " said
Shishlov.
According to Shishlov, recently the laws have been often
adopted in a hurry, on emotions, and without any analysis
of the circumstances and the consequences. In this case,
the proponents of the amendments have been carried away by
pseudo-patriotic rhetoric and forgetting about the rights
and interests of Russian orphans, many of whom are seriously
ill. I would like to hope that these immoral amendments to
the law disgracing our country will not be adopted,"
he said.
See also:
The
original publication
Human
Rights
Boris
Vishnevsky: Have you voted for "anyone" but the
ruling party? Now get the consequences.Boris
Vishnevsky's blog at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, December 22,
2012.
Sanctions
against Russian orphans. Grigory Yavlinsky's
Live Journal, December 19, 2012.
State
Duma’s revenge on the US affects only Russian orphans.
Statement by YABLOKO Chairman, December 18,
2012.
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