{"id":9113,"date":"2014-03-30T23:10:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2014-04-01T23:21:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:21:02","slug":"human-rights-report-presented-to-saint-petersburg-legislators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/human-rights-report-presented-to-saint-petersburg-legislators\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights report presented to Saint Petersburg legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:WordDocument>\n<w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n<w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n<w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n<w:Compatibility>\n<w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n<w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n<w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n<w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n<w:DontGrowAutofit\/>\n<\/w:Compatibility>\n<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n<\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">\n<\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n table.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"\u041e\u0431\u044b\u0447\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0442\u0430\u0431\u043b\u0438\u0446\u0430\";\n\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmso-padding-alt:0mm 5.4pt 0mm 5.4pt;\n\tmso-para-margin:0mm;\n\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;\n\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;\n\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}\n<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><span lang=\"EN-US\">On March 26, 2014 Saint Petersburg ombudsman A.Shishlov presented annual human rights <a href=\"http:\/\/ombudsmanspb.ru\/files\/files\/doklad_2013sait.pdf\">report<\/a> for 2013 to the deputies of the Saint Petersburg legislative assembly. Among other things report featured materials which were prepared by the city\u2019s human rights organizations, including ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d. Mr. Shishlov paid substantial attention \u00a0in his report to the problem of xenophobia in Saint Petersburg. He stressed the need to react strictly against all violent actions motivated by xenophobia (i.e. so called \u201cRussian cleansings\u201d, which took place in summer 2013), as well as the necessity to correctly qualify these actions not as hooliganism, but as pogroms motivated by hate. Ombudsman also spoke about violence aimed against LGBT persons, which, too, is usually qualified as mere hooliganism. <!--more--><script src=\"\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ombudsman\u2019s report stated with regret that the use of notion of \u201cillegal immigrant\u201d, as well as hate language in general became more widespread over the last year. Mr. Shishlov stressed that the \u201cdangers\u201d of labor immigration are in most cases exaggerated, which can be proven by crime statistics \u2013 immigrants commit twice as less crimes as local dwellers of Saint Petersburg. Ombudsman called on the legislators not to forget the lessons of history: blaming \u201c aliens\u201d for all the troubles, xenophobia and hate always lead to catastrophes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">In his report Mr. Shishlov has also noted violations of civil and political rights, i.e. that people of Saint Petersburg are not able to implement their right for peaceful assembly (out of 452 requests for public meetings just 181, or mere 40%, were authorized by the city authorities last year). At the same time detentions of participants of public assemblies were often carried with violations of human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Freedom of association was also often violated over the period of last year: non-governmental organizations were subjected to checks by the procurators, which, according to Mr. Shishlov, were in contradiction even with the procedural documents of the procurators\u2019 office. Reports about violations in Saint Petersburg were incorporated into the appeal made by the ombudsman of the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin to the Constitutional court of the Russian Federation. The court is also to present its ruling regarding the law on \u201cforeign agents\u201d \u00a0in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Deputies of the legislative assembly had then posed questions to ombudsman. Some of these questions were openly provocative, but the presence of journalists and TV crews contributed to observation of decencies during the meeting and the chairman of the meeting reacted to open attacks on human rights defenders and \u201cliberals\u201d in a rather strict way. The notorious deputy Milonov asked ombudsman whether it was not a violation of the rights of the majority for the latter to be present at the public assemblies of \u201cperverts\u201d and \u201cBanderovists\u201d (supporters of Ukrainian nationalists \u2013 ed.). Mr. Shishlov responded that it was the duty of all people invested with authority to cultivate respect to law and justice and as a consequence of that not to participate in any actions that foster sentiments of a completely opposite nature, i.e. xenophobia and hate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ombudsmanspb.ru\/files\/files\/doklad_2013sait.pdf\">Report on human rights and freedoms of citizens in saint Petersburg for 2013<\/a> (in Russian)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, 2014 Saint Petersburg ombudsman A.Shishlov presented annual human rights report for 2013 to the deputies of the Saint Petersburg legislative assembly. 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Among other things report featured materials which were prepared by the city\u2019s human rights organizations, including ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d. Mr. Shishlov paid substantial attention \u00a0in his report to the problem of xenophobia in Saint Petersburg. 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