Antiwar Initiatives Congress calls on European authorities to prevent Alexey Moskalev’s extradition from Belarus to Russia
More than 30 human rights and antiwar organizations have signed an open letter from the Antiwar Initiatives Congress to the European authorities, asking them to prevent the extradition of Alexey Moskalev from Belarus to Russia.
Alexey Moskalev is a single father from Russia’s Tula region. He has been sentenced to two years in a penal colony in a chain of events that started with his daughter’s antiwar protest drawing. Having fled house arrest and traveled to Belarus, he awaits deportation in a Belarusian jail.
“We call on the European Commission, the Council of Europe, and members of the European Parliament to use all available means to prevent Alexey Moskalev’s extradition to Russia and to ensure his passage to a safe country,” says the collective open letter. Its authors describe the Moskalev family’s persecution as a political case aimed at terrorizing dissidents in the country. This, they point out, is illegal even under the Russian law, and also goes against the European Convention on Human Rights.
Earlier, the Russian human rights organizations Memorial and OVD-Info appealed to the E.U. authorities on behalf of the Moskalev family.
