GENEVA - Russia stayed away on Thursday from a UN committee raking over the human rights situation in the country in what is meant to be a process aimed at constructive improvement.
“I regret that the Russian Federation hasn’t sent a delegation to respond,” said Ms Marcia V. J. Kran of Canada, a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. “We also have a serious concern about the use of sophisticated, state-developed poisons to silence, punish and kill at least a dozen prominent dissidents, opposition leaders and activists in the past decade.”
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