New sanctions and demands: US Congress filed resolution on Russia

The draft resolution, submitted to the US Congress on May 11, calls on Russia to release political prisoners, including Ukrainian citizens, and also asks the U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions on Russian officials responsible for human rights violations, harassment of journalists, opposition members, civil society representatives, and religious freedom activists. Writes about it "Voice of America".

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The draft resolution was co-sponsored by congressmen from both parties, including Eliot Engel, Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee of the US House of Representatives on Foreign Affairs and member of the Republican committee, Michael McCall.

“Vladimir Putin is a brutal authoritarian ruler with a long history of suppressing civil liberties, including press freedom, political opposition speech and democracy,” Engel says.

According to the document, the number of political prisoners in Russia has grown 6 times in comparison with 2015. Political prisoners include journalists, activists, human rights activists, members of peaceful organizations, citizens of Ukraine and the illegally annexed peninsula of Crimea.

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“Putin is most afraid of the truth. The Russian president has turned the rule of law into repression, silencing journalists, threatening political opponents, and disempowering civil society activists, Ukrainians, and religious and ethnic minorities,” says Michael McCaul.

The resolution calls on the Russian government to immediately release persons identified by the Human Rights Center Memorial as political prisoners, according to the criteria of the PACE resolution and lists, in particular, activists such as Alexey Pichugin, who has been imprisoned since 2003, journalist Igor Rudnikov, opposition activist Konstantin Kotov, activist of the Open Russia movement Anastasia Shevchenko, leader of the Human Rights Memorial Yuri Dmitriev and Danish citizen, prisoner on religious grounds Dennis Christensen.

The full text of the resolution can be viewed at link (in English).

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