GENEVA (Reuters) – The acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday that Russia was intimidating opponents of the war in Ukraine.
“In the Russian Federation, the intimidation, restrictive measures and sanctions against people voicing opposition to the war in Ukraine undermine the exercise of constitutionally guaranteed fundamental freedoms, including the rights to free assembly, expression and association,” Nada Al- Nashif said in a speech at the opening of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
She also said Moscow was violating the right to access information by pressuring journalists, blocking the internet and through other forms of censorship.
(Reporting by Emma Farge; editing by Matthias Williams)
