6/6/2013 – Garry Kasparov has declared he will not return to Russia. He fears he will be targeted in a wave of investigations into members of the opposition. Currently in Geneva receiving a human rights prize; Kasparov said, via an audio recording on his website, that if he returned to Moscow, he had “serious doubts” he may not be able to leave again. Reports from the international media.
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Chess legend Garry Kasparov says he is staying
out of Russia,
as 12 protesters face long prison terms over anti-Putin demonstrations.
The former world chess champion has in recent years become an impassioned
campaigner against the rule of President Vladimir Putin and took part in
some of the mass opposition street protests against his rule. He was arrested
last year for protesting
outside the court when Pussy Riot members were on trial.
Kasparov now says he fears he could be investigated as part of a crackdown
on the opposition if he returns home. "I kept travelling back and forth
until late February when it became clear that I might be part of this ongoing
investigation of the activities of the political protesters," Mr Kasparov
said in Geneva on Wednesday, according to an audio recording posted on his
website. "Right now, I have serious doubts that if I return to Moscow
I may not be able to travel back. So for the time being I refrain from returning
to Russia."
Euronews report on Kasparov's decision: click
to view
the video
A prominent voice of opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kasparov,
had previously been arrested for taking part in anti-government demonstrations.
His announcement comes as 12 protesters who took part in an anti-Putin rally
in June 2012 are due in court. The defendants are charged with mass disorder
and violence against the police and could face up to eight years in jail.
Kasparov on Facebook
One
simple question at a Geneva press conference has set off a firestorm of
conjecture about my not returning Russia, so I want to set the story straight
myself! Russia is and will always be my country. I am still traveling on
a Russian passport, and though I was born in the USSR, and have spent most
of my adult life traveling constantly, Russia is my home even when I am
not able to be there. I refuse to allow Putin and his gang define Russia.
They are a temporary disease that the Russian immune system will soon fight
off.
I am doing everything I can to help win that fight. Before I retired from
chess I represented Russia fighting battles on the chessboard around the
world. I have spent years marching in the streets against Putin, speaking
at rallies, and facing the police. Today I am still representing Russia
and fighting harder than ever in America and Europe to bring international
sanctions against the criminals and thugs in the Kremlin. I have had hundreds
of meetings and appearances to promote such legislation, and the US has
adopted the Magnitsky Act and Europe is increasingly open to doing the same.
Such laws attack Putin's power at its foundation: the loyalty of his gang
that is based on the protection he provides so they can enjoy their stolen
riches abroad. Putin is at the center of the web, but the fight for human
rights is a global one and it is critical to both assist and to seek assistance
from allies abroad.
Meanwhile, Putin is cracking down harder than ever and is showing he is
willing to create a new generation of political prisoners unseen since the
days of Stalin. I have already been "invited" to speak to prosecutors
and such invitations have a way, at a minimum, of limiting ones freedom
of movement. Adding another victim to the regime's list will not do much
good. I will not casually put myself at the mercy of the investigative office
of Alexander Bastrykin, who deserves to be the top Russian official on the
Magnitsky List himself!
Please, let no one doubt my commitment to the cause of a free and strong
Russia, or doubt for one moment that I am working constantly to achieve
that goal. I have dedicated my life to my human rights activities and my
education programs and it is impossible to imagine I would be allowed to
continue this work inside Russia today. Many of my friends in the opposition
are risking their lives and their security every day and they deserve the
full attention and protection of the global community and bringing this
support is part of my efforts. I am present; I am in touch on a daily basis
with what is happening with the opposition, and I will do whatever I can
to support my colleagues and my compatriots until Putin and his cronies
are gone for good.
Garry Kasparov UN Press Conference, June 4, 2013 - Hosted by UN Watch
Garry Kasparov is currently in Geneva to receive
the UN Watch Morris B. Abram Human Rights Award tomorrow at the League
of Nations Hall. On Tuesday gave an hour-long press conference at the United
Nations on his experience with human, civil, and political rights abuses
in Russia. An audio-only video of the talk is below, and a transcript will
be added if it becomes available.
Addendum: news articles (at 21:00h MEST)
Since publication of our initial "breaking news" report there
have been a large number of stories on Kasparov's situation in the internation
press – many of them made up in headline fashion. Here is a sample
of articles posted online, a list that is growing by the hour.
Clicking on any of the screen captures above will take you to the stories.
Below are further links to international articles – pick a language...
We cannot resist mentioning a joke that is making the rounds in Russia
and the Internet: the only way Vladimir Putin could think of getting Kasparov
out of the news was to announce
his divorce from wife Lyudmila a few hours after the Kasparov story
broke...
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