"The IOC and USOC know that this law is wrong, and they are disgracing the Olympics with their inept handling of this crisis. In Europe and the Americas governments just do not arrest people for wearing displeasing T-shirts. But not once have the committees or the corporate sponsors appeared to truly acknowledge the gravity of what is actually happening in Russia. They do not seem to recognize it for what it is: the boiling over of a human rights crisis that has been simmering in Russia for a long time. "Outside Russia, few are defending this law on its own (lack of) merits. This is because this law is per se a chilling assault on fundamental principles of freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. This is not an opinion but a finding of fact by the European Court of Human Rights. Russia has already been found to be violating their obligations to the European Convention on Human Rights with regard to their conduct toward LGBT citizens."
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:06:37 +0000
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