Repressed Memories - Disbanded Protest in Moscow (Sub: HUN)

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On the International Drug User's Day, November 1, 2009, activists organized a protest in front of the Federal Drug Control Service (FDCS) in Moscow to pay tribute to the memory of people died of drugs. The protesters laid flowers and white slippers (the symbol of death) on the doorsteps of the agency's building to remember the great number of lives claimed by inhumane Russian drug policy.

Every year thousands of people die in Russia because of drug related overdoses and infections - many of these deaths could be easily prevented with the help of evidence based harm reduction programs. Despite the evidence showing the effectiveness of these programs, the anti-drug agency pursues a war on drug users - and like in every wars, the first causulty is truth.

The peacful protest was ended by police brutality, five portesters were arrested and detained for five hours, later they were summoned to a magistrate court. This is how Russian authorities respond to citizens who express their opinion on government policies - and the rest of Europe is assisting because they prefer economic interests over human rights.

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• Drugs
• heroin
• Death
• Overdose
• methadone
• Human Rights
• protest
• drug users
• harm reduction
• HCLU
• TASZ

[zgnikfognik]

@spitzer72 That is the most ignorant thing I've ever heard.

Do you know that it's easier to get drugs in prison than outside?

Do you know that one of the most dangerous and threatenning drugs, alcohol is being advertized, sold and consumed legally every day around the globe, while less dangerous and less addictive drugs remain illegal?

How dare you say that peaceable, tax-paying people, that want to chose another, maybe even safer drug than the one the government likes, are criminals?

L.I.F.E.

[btri6e]

респект браться и сестры

мусора понятно почему злиться изволят: они реально ни х.я делать полезного не умеют...кроме как крышевать наркобизнес и принимать потребителей...и коли легалайз произойдет им придется искать работу...а не найдут они ее по любому, потому что работать не умеют..

замкнутый круг порождает скорость их злости...

[DRDNIBOY]

I suspect the Russian Orthodox have allot to do with the lack of empathy for drug users and the programs to help them. The russian Orthodox tend to be very oppressive.

[LikePsy]

ХАхаа!!! Респект =)))

[MedienprojektPSITV]

the black cops are riot cops..

[GreenAmbassador]

United we'll stand!

GREEN PRISONERS RELEASE!

Peace, G.A.