FSB calls for activists to be punished for raising "doubts about the legitimacy of the authorities and the correctness of the political course"

posted 25 Feb 2013, 05:39 by Rights in Russia   [ updated 25 Feb 2013, 05:40 ]
20 February 2013


Source: HRO.org (info)
On 20 February 2013 in Tatarstan a public prosecutor issued a warning to a civic activist at the request of the FSB, telling him that extremism would not be tolerated. The Naberezhnye Chelny prosecutor's office issued the warning regarding extremist activity to the former director of the museum of archaeology at the Elabuzh branch of Kazan Federal University, Raushan Valiullin. As was learned the evening before, this warning was prompted by a letter the city's prosecutor Aleksandr Evgrafov received from the FSB, in which the civic activist was upbraided for cultivating "an acutely negative public attitude toward the leaders of the state", "discrediting state agencies" and provoking "doubts about the legitimacy of the authorities and the correctness of the political course being pursued in the country." The FSB also believes that the deliberateness of Valiullin's actions "is corroborated by the destructive activity carried out by him during the 2011-2012 election campaigns." [Read more]
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