Bringing up the topics, which include protests by mothers of mobilized soldiers, would reportedly 'upset the president.'
's hand-picked human rights council on Wednesday, Putin reportedly prohibited members from asking questions on four issues.
Two members of Putin's Human Rights Council told independent Russian news outlet Nestka, on condition of anonymity, that the group was"forbidden" from discussing the Kremlin's stringent law about the military; protests by mothers of mobilized soldiers; soldiers' equipment; and the death of Yevgeny Nuzhin, a Wagner Group recruit.
HRC members were advised not to raise the topics"so as not to upset the president" during the video conference, the outlet reported. In November, Putin hand-picked new members for the council after dismissing, among others, Igor Kalyapin, a human rights activist and founder of the"Committee against Torture" and journalist Nikolai Svanidze, independent news outlet MediaZonaOne new member of the council selected by Putin was Alexander Kots, an employee of the pro-Kremlin media outlet, who claimed that"Ukrainian Nazis" were responsible for the Bucha massacre, the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians by Russian...
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on December 6, 2022. Ahead of an annual meeting of his hand-picked human rights council on Wednesday, December 7, Putin reportedly prohibited members from asking questions on four issues.
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