GENEVA: United Nations human rights leader Michelle Bachelet on Monday criticised Russia for outlawing groups connected to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny because”extremist”, also called on Moscow to preserve basic political and civil liberty.
“Legislation limiting the liberty of expression, peaceful assembly and association ought to be brought in accordance with international human rights standards and criteria,” Bachelet told the Human Rights Council.
“I urge the government to terminate the random practice of labelling regular people, journalists, along with non-governmental associations as’extremists’,”foreign agents’ or’undesirable associations’,” she advised that the Geneva forum.