Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan held a picket in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 11.02.2019
Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the branch of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan, held a one-person picket in support of Anastasia Shevchenko and other political prisoners in the center of Kazan on the eve of the “Mothers’ Rage” march (demonstrations against political reprisals held in different cities and demanding freedom for political prisoners after a daughter of activist Anastasia Shevchenko died in hospital while her mother was under house arrest).
Zinatullin stood with a placard “Verdicts for free-thinking are a shame of Russia.”
Earlier, on 4 February, the Bureau of the Yabloko party issued a statement against the repession of civic activists, where it stated that “blurring of distinction between peaceful opposition and revolutionaries is dangerous primarily for the state system”.
Posted: February 11th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.