U.S. Condemns Russian Polling Stations In Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine
The top Biden administration official in charge of Europe and Eurasia on Friday condemned Russia’s presidential polling stations in the Russia-occupied Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and in the Moldovan territory of Transnistria, TURAN/'s Washington correspondent reports.
"The Kremlin again tramples on these nations’ sovereignty and territorial integrity," James O'Brien, assistant Secretary of State noted in a tweet.
Earlier, the State Department also condemned Russia's continuing efforts to undermine Ukraine's sovereignty by holding sham elections in occupied Ukrainian territories.
"We do not, and will never, recognize the legitimacy or outcome of Putin's attempt to legitimize his illegal land grab," O'Brien noted in a separate tweet.
Russians are voting in a three-day national election this weekend.
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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