Russia's Human Rights Council Meets Putin, But Its Members Have Been Banned From Asking The President Inconvenient Questions

Before the meeting with Putin, members of the Human Rights Council (HRC) were prohibited from asking questions about the execution of a Wagner PMC fighter and the losses of the Russian army, reports Present Tense.

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The head of the Human Rights Council (HRC), Valery Fadeev, has agreed with the administration of President Vladimir Putin on issues for the annual meeting, which will be held on December 7, according to two members of the council and one source close to the council.

According to them, the president is forbidden to ask a number of questions.

In particular, issues of law enforcement fake law.

This federal law establishes criminal liability for the dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as for public actions aimed at discrediting the Russian army and the actions of government agencies abroad. In other words, punishment awaits not only the media, but also bloggers and ordinary people who disagree with the authorities. Even a message sent to a neighbor’s chat can be regarded as the dissemination of deliberately false information. Anti-war appeals, reposts on social networks - all this threatens with a fine or time in prison.

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According to sources, HRC members were banned from asking Putin about losses of the Russian army in the war in Ukraine.

They also made the question of execution of prisoner Yevgeny Nuzhin, recruited by Wagner PMC to participate in the war in Ukraine.

Recall that the Wagner Group is an unofficial armed formation, often referred to in the media as a Russian private military company (“Wagner PMC”, “Wagner PMC”). It is alleged that since 2014, the group operated in Ukraine, and then in Syria.

On the night of November 13, a video appeared on social networks in which a man who had returned from Ukrainian captivity was beaten with a sledgehammer, reports with the BBC. This man was Evgeniy Nuzhin, a former prisoner with a sentence for murder, recruited by Wagner PMC to participate in the war in Ukraine. After being captured, he said that he surrendered voluntarily because he wanted to fight on the side of Ukraine, but in the end he was exchanged. In the caption to the video, Nuzhin is called a traitor who “received the traditional, original Wagnerian punishment.” The authenticity of what happened in the video has not been confirmed by anyone.

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Questions about provision of soldiers and protests of mothers mobilized It was also recommended not to ask. Anti-war protests are taking place in Russia. Hundreds of women come out to protest against the mobilization and poor equipment of the army. Protesters are detained, protesters resist. In Nalchik, local authorities tried to go out to people to talk, but women attacked them shouting: “send your children there.” Protests swept through dozens of Russian cities, hundreds of people were detained, reports Radio Liberty.

At the same time, members of the Human Rights Council were advised to ask about the end of the “partial” mobilization. Sources said that now people are worried about a possible second wave of mobilization, so they want to calm people down.

“Desirable” questions are also questions about the state of the environment, sanctions against Russians, the problem of refugees and legislation on prohibition of LGBT propaganda.

On December 5, Putin signed a law completely prohibiting the dissemination of materials that the Russian authorities consider “promoting non-traditional sexual relations.” New document must stop the dissemination of information about homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender RadioFreedom.

One of the authors of the bill, deputy Alexander Khinshtein, has repeatedly stated that he seeks to impose a ban not on “LGBT as a phenomenon,” but on “positive promotion that LGBT is normal.”

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that “there can be no stop list.” According to him, the members of the HRC are “all very strong-willed people who have proven themselves in their fields, and these are people who will not look at any stop list when performing their functions.”

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Putin will meet with the updated composition of the HRC. In November, Putin expelled human rights activist Igor Kalyapin and journalist Nikolai Svanidze from the Human Rights Council. Instead, he included in the council a member of the Public Monitoring Committee, Alexei Melnikov, and an employee of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Alexander Kots, who writes about the war in Ukraine in accordance with the recommendations of the Ministry of Defense. In particular, he argued that “Ukrainian Nazis” were responsible for the massacres in Bucha.

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