{"id":31013,"date":"2021-01-23T19:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T03:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31013"},"modified":"2021-01-23T19:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T03:20:19","slug":"protests-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31013","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"module featured-content page-header \">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"featured-content__copy\">\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p class=\"article-meta doctype-meta\">PRESS STATEMENT<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-meta__author-bureau\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/biographies\/ned-price\/\">NED PRICE, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-meta__publish-date\">JANUARY 23, 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The United States strongly condemns the use of harsh tactics against protesters and journalists this weekend in cities throughout Russia. Prior to today\u2019s events, the Russian government sought to suppress the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression by harassing protest organizers, threatening social media platforms, and pre-emptively arresting potential participants. This follows years of tightening restrictions on and repressive actions against civil society, independent media, and the political opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Continued efforts to suppress Russians\u2019 rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, the arrest of opposition figure Aleksey Navalny, and the crackdown on protests that followed are troubling indications of further restrictions on civil society and fundamental freedoms. Russians\u2019 rights to peaceful assembly and to participate in free and fair elections are enshrined not only in the country\u2019s constitution, but also in Russia\u2019s OSCE commitments, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in its international obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.<\/p>\n<p>We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny. We urge Russia to fully cooperate with the international community\u2019s investigation into the poisoning of Aleksey Navalny and credibly explain the use of a chemical weapon on its soil.<\/p>\n<p>The United States will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies and partners in defense of human rights \u2013 whether in Russia or wherever they come under threat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS STATEMENT NED PRICE, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31014,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31013\/revisions\/31014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}