Our Collective Conscience •
another participating State accused a number of well-respected human rights
NGOs of being funded by Western intelligence agencies.81 Other human
rights defenders were accused of collaboration with terrorists or equated
with being terrorists.82 A Roma rights activist found himself accused of being
an adviser to drug dealers in a national newspaper and in a local leafleting
campaign.83
81
Ibid., pp. 524-525 (Russian Federation).
82
Case of Timur Aliev (Russian Federation), ibid., p. 537.
83 Case of Boris Maksovich Kreindel (Russian Federation), UN SRSG, op. cit., note 15, para. 567;
for the government’s response, see para. 576.
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