Human Rights Activists: Dying Trying

In October of 2006, Human Rights groups in Russia were shut down under a new public policy, a NGO law came into effect, but why?

Amnesty International reports that a Human Rights Activist was killed 1 April, 2009.  In the report it goes as far to say that this is not an odd occurrence to happen in Russia, that in fact most of the time, killings go unreported, 'The silence here it says is equivalence to condoning them,' (Amnesty International).  When Lev Ponomarev, a Human Rights activist, spoke out against these killings in 2008, a group of young adults, seemingly working for the Russian Parliament, attacked him.  

The Committee to Protect Journalists writes, however, the killings and beatings do not stop.  Not only are Human rights Groups being shut down for promoting the safety and welfare of citizens globally, those involved in these groups are trying to be shut up.  Lev Ponomarev has been beaten again, and not just beaten, brutally attacked.  International Human Rights Groups have been contacted including Amnesty International, Freedom House, Frontline Defenders, as well as others, bring President Obama, and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to meet in London.

News from that will hopefully bring a beginning to an end of such a horrible world-wide phenomenon.