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September 19, 2014 from 13 - 15.00 in Nizhny Novgorod ICPO «Volga migration center" organized and held a picket in support of the elimination of terrorism, religious extremism, and genocide against Christians, Yezidis and Kurds in Iraq and Syria.
Holding shares was agreed with the city administration, and we received official permission to hold the picket.
Subject event caused a wide response not only among our partners: human rights organizations, national communities, but the local people.
We have sent out a press release indicating the time and place of the rally in the regional and federal media. Many of them expressed an interest, in particular, the channel Life Newsi others. We were expecting a large influx of participants, including journalists, but, unfortunately, the media did not come to the picket. |
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for the event, strongly recommended not to hold a picket, since September 19 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian President arrives and can be interpreted as a picket action in support of the US bombardment of areas Syria and Iraq. Many of our partners are also advised to avoid the problems do not go to this action.
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Apparently, the reason is that before me as the director of ICPO «Volga migration center" responsible
But we, being sure they are right and violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation, still held a rally, which was attended not only human rights activists, representatives of national communities, but the local residents. In total, the event was attended by over 30 people.
In the future, we plan to hold a similar rally in Moscow.
Responsible for organizing and hosting the event - Choloyan AH
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