December 7, 2006
Russia Charity Law Snarls a Dutch Human-Rights Organization
The Russian government has refused to allow a Dutch nonprofit organization to resume providing legal assistance here to victims of human-rights abuses.
The decision not to re-register the Stichting Russian Justice Initiative has been described as spurious by the head of the Utrecht organization, which recently won a string of rulings in favor of Russian clients in the European Court of Human Rights.
In a letter sent to the charity, the Federal Registration Service, which is
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