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STORY: OHCHR / RUSSIA ARRESTS
TRT: 1:09
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 01 MARCH 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
01 MARCH 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations exterior
2. Wide shot, briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Peaceful anti-war demonstrators continue to be arbitrarily arrested in Russia, with reports suggesting some 6,400 people have been arrested since Thursday last week. We understand the vast majority are released within hours, many after paying an administrative fine, while some are given prison sentences ranging from seven to 25 days under various laws. There are also reports of unnecessary and excessive use of force by police during and after the arrests.”
4. Wide shot, briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We stress that arresting people solely for exercising their rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of liberty.”
6. Wide shot, spokespersons at dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We call for the immediate release of all those arbitrarily detained and for the authorities to abide by their international obligations to respect and ensure the rights to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly.”
8. Med shot, spokespersons at dais
The UN human rights officer said, “Peaceful anti-war demonstrators continue to be arbitrarily arrested in Russia, with reports suggesting some 6,400 people have been arrested since Thursday last week,” according to a spokesperson.
Speaking to reporters in Geneva today (01 Mar), OHCHR spokesperson Liz Throssell said, “We understand the vast majority are released within hours, many after paying an administrative fine, while some are given prison sentences ranging from seven to 25 days under various laws. There are also reports of unnecessary and excessive use of force by police during and after the arrests.”
Throssell stressed that arresting people solely for exercising their rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression “constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of liberty.”
The OHCHR spokesperson called for the “immediate release of all those arbitrarily detained and for the authorities to abide by their international obligations to respect and ensure the rights to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly.”
