The International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed strong disapproval of the prison terms requested by the prosecutor for nine activists and journalists from Toplum TV, which range from 13 to 16 years. Gulnoza Said, CPJ program coordinator, emphasized that such harsh punishments demonstrate the Azerbaijani authorities' desire to respond to courageous reporting and sow a climate of fear.
In Tyumen, nationalists shouted anti-migrant slogans
In the center of Tyumen, next to the building of the Union of Armenians of the Tyumen Region, a group of guys shouted xenophobic slogans against migrants: “Russia is for Russians, Tyumen is not for Khachi.”
Local youth marched with their faces covered in the center of Tyumen along Republic Street.
Xenophobic sentiments are also observed in other cities of the Russian Federation. So, in Murino, Leningrad region, a people's squad appeared. Improvised troops, consisting of local men, decided to fight against non-Slavic visitors to the city. To combat migrants, the people's squad uses pepper spray. Patrols are carried out regularly using walkie-talkies.
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