Open letter
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Navanethem Pillay from the Russian human rights activists
Dear Mrs Pillay!
We appeal to you, because we consider it our duty to draw world attention to the ongoing trial in Moscow over Andrei Erofeev and Yuri Samodurov. As the crime they are charged with holding the exhibition "Forbidden Art 2006", which in March 2007 was held in the museum and community center named AD Sakharov in Moscow - 23 different genre and style of work by contemporary Russian artists, with different degree of international recognition. These works share a common subtext - a protest against the tendency to clerical censorship is doubly unacceptable in a democratic and secular state against the claims of the aggressive and ignorant of the Church hierarchy for decades bailiff of the CPSU and the KGB, to form a new state ideology.
Admittedly, this is not the first story of this kind. The previous exhibition "Caution: Religion!" Suffered the same fate. Then the exhibition struck massacre in two acts: first pogrom (supposedly a spontaneous reaction "Orthodox community") and after trial. In 2005, the organizers of the exhibition Lyudmila Vasilovskaya and Yuri Samodurov was sentenced to heavy fines.
It requires the prosecution and sentence Erofeev Samodurova already to three years in prison.
Technology "courts Lynch (an indignant public, which has not seen pictures, do not read books, but deeply outraged and demands the most severe punishment), in conjunction with independent courts, without complaint, however, obedient to the state charges, well developed in our recent history when the concept of human rights is officially declared a bourgeois anti-Soviet fiction. Of course, in comparison with the Stalin-Brezhnev's times of modern times, seems to be a vegetarian. Today's stewards Russia publicly scrapes to democracy and human rights. However, it is in such processes and reflected the true face of the regime.
The verdict on the process to be put in the next few days. It's time to stop the avenging hand kvazipravosudiya. Help us in this. Unable to put up with homegrown Inquisition!
Ludmila Alekseeva
Bonner
Vladimir Bukovsky
Sergei Kovalev
Pavel Litvinov
Arseny Roginsky
30.06.2010/novayagazeta.ru
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