The performance for Human Rights

zf. All at once an interesting troup of four takes care of human rights in Russia. With their brisk performance they give the impression that they have been appointed at the highest level. And it reads as follows:

Mr Putin, release the 34 prisoners held illegally in Russia

by Bernard-Henri Lévy, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Bernard Kouchner, André Glucksmann …

In the first months of your new presidential term, when you are welcomed in France, Friday, 1 June we, the undersigned, call your attention to an important and urgent matter that could easily be resolved by you.

On 8 February, the Kremlin’s Committee on Civil Society and Human Rights and independent experts submitted to your predecessor and current Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a list of 34 persons including doctors, economists, teachers, entrepreneurs and writers, considered as illegally detained in your country, subject to trial that does not conform to a rule of law, or persecuted for their political opinions. In addition to this Committee, many personalities of the Russian intellectual and artistic community have advised your predecessor to release these individuals unjustly imprisoned. […]

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