To whom it may concern, A really unprecedented change happened today in Ukrainian Parliament - with no regard to any legal procedure the amendments to the Criminal Code and other laws were adopted, which are aimed to ruin basic democratic freedoms. Mass media will suffer a lot - journalist will now recieve criminal punishement for defamation. Independent websites will be banned/blocked even without court decisions. Gathering of information about employees of law enforcement agencies as well as courts is also punished. NGO independence will be fully distroyed by the special and more complicated tax money accounting. The money received by the NGOs from foreign funds will be taxed. Such NGOs will obtain bounding status of foreign agent. This is a real Russian scenario. These laws are also to introduce a simplified procedure for cancelling immunity of oppositional MPs. Moreover, the notion of distant court trials becomes our new reality. It seems that they deliberately do not leave any legal space for peaceful protest.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:10:20 +0000
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