Source: HRO.org (info), 09/12/11 

· Electoral rights  · Right of assembly  · Human rights defenders  · Protests  · Moscow city & Moscow region 

Statement by members of the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights: “We, members of the Council, today experience feelings of alarm and hope. In recent days, before our eyes, in response to numerous reports of falsifications of the elections, the population of Russia is being transformed into a real civil society. Tomorrow it will undergo a test...” 


We, members of the Council, today experience feelings of alarm and hope. In recent days, before our eyes, in response to numerous reports of falsifications of the elections, the population of Russia is being transformed into a real civil society. Tomorrow it will undergo a test. 

We are extremely concerned by the reports of violations of the rights of citizens to the expression of their choice in free and fair elections. Each report must be carefully checked. Those responsible for election fraud must be brought to court, the forged electoral commission protocols of election results must be recognized as void, and the ballot papers that have been the means of fraud must be recounted. 

If the violations that have been committed do not allow an accurate determination of the electorate’s choices, fresh elections are necessary. This is what people are demanding, and this is what the law demands. [Read more]