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YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO TAKE PART IN THE ACTION TO PROTECT ANDREI BABITSKY

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In Russia only one person can order immediate release of journalist Babitsky. That person is acting President Vladimir Putin. Especially since he has taken the Babitsky case under personal review and consequently, has assumed the full responsibility for his fate. Express your demand to Vladimir Putin.

Acting President of Russia
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Dear Mr Putin,

All that is happening to journalist Andrei Babitsky and all the explanations of these events provided by the officials of various agencies demonstrate total neglect of justice, the laws of the country and the international obligations Russia has assumed.

You have told the nation that you are taking the Babitsky case under your personal supervision.

You have told the nation that you recognize just one kind of dictatorship, the dictatorship of the Law. Use your powers and your possibilities to secure the release of journalist Andrei Babitsky. Your actions (or your inaction) in this case will provide graphic illustration of your sense of responsibility and the meaning you read into the expression "Dictatorship of the Law".

If you agree with the text of the above appeal to Vladimir Putin, fill in your data, strike the Send key and the appeal will be dispatched to e-mail addresses of the acting President. (prespr@gov.ru and president@gov.ru)

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Total number of appelas sent: 291
The European Community is pledged to protecting freedom of expression and unobstructed work of journalists in all countries.
Express your wishes regarding immediate measures toward freeing journalist Andrei Babitsky that the European Community should take.
To the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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On February 4 Yelena Bonner appealed to the PACE urging it to convene an extraordinary session of the Parliamentary Assembly for a thorough study of the situation surrounding the case of journalist Andrei Babitsky. The case has ceased to be an internal affair of Russia which is a member of the PACE.

In the case of Andrei Babitsky the Russian authorities have vividly demonstrated their total neglect of the obligations they have assumed to protect basic human rights and freedoms (including the obligation to do everything to facilitate and protect unobstructed work of journalists, an obligation detailed in the documents of the Council of Europe). Moreover, the Russian authorities are demonstrating that they have succeeded, in present-day Russia, in totally exempting themselves from the law and in turning all the legal institutions into mere docile instruments in their hands. Thereby they have destroyed the fundamental criterion of democratic society, equality of all before the law.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe possesses effective levers to stop this process and - most importantly today - to save the life of journalist Andrei Babitsky.

I call on the PACE to convene in an extraordinary session where it will be possible to persuade or prevail upon Russia to free journalist Babitsky and make public the true circumstances connected with the denial of freedom to that journalist.

If you agree with the text of the appeal, fill in your data, press the Send key to send the English translation of the appeal to PACE e-mail addresses: (Pace.Info@coe.fr, PresUnit@coe.int, HumanRights.Info@coe.fr, HumanRights.Info@coe.fr, point_i@coe.int)

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Total number of appeals sent: 232

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