{"id":92508,"date":"2012-07-11T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2012-07-11T13:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T12:22:35","slug":"open-letter-russian-ngo-law-threatens-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=92508","title":{"rendered":"Open letter | Russian NGO law threatens free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Russian parliament pushed through a bill that in its current form would\u00a0brand non-profit organisations receiving funds from abroad as \u201cforeign agents\u201d and would require them to take part in a\u00a0stringent reporting process. Opponents say the bill is part of a concerted campaign to\u00a0stifle protests against President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Index joins rights groups concerned that the amendments to Russian NGO law may limit the space for a vibrant civil society in the country.<!--more--><br \/>\n<a style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Open letter to the Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/99799015\/Open-letter-to-the-Deputies-of-the-State-Duma-of-the-Russian-Federation\">Open letter to the Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation<\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_39403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/99799015\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=list&amp;access_key=key-119cvjxed926lqglktx4\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" data-auto-height=\"true\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.706697459584296\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Russian parliament pushed through a bill that in its current form would\u00a0brand non-profit organisations receiving funds from abroad as \u201cforeign agents\u201d and would require them to take part in a\u00a0stringent reporting process. Opponents say the bill is part of a concerted campaign to\u00a0stifle protests against President Vladimir Putin. Index joins rights groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[571,2947,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}