Herewith we, the undersigned, express our outrage at antihuman, antidemocratic, homophobic policies, acts and politically motivated court cases by Vladimir Putin's regime in his third presidential term, most importantly:
- Arrest, death in custody and posthumous prosecution of Sergei Magnitsky, the Russian lawyer who investigated and exposed a $230m governmental corruption case.
- Two-year prison camp term for members of Pussy Riot music band, both young mothers, sentenced for singing an anti-Putin song in church.
- The law banning Americans from adopting Russian children, depriving them of hopes for a better life.
- A series of anti-gay laws, including banned adoption of Russian children by foreign same-sex couples and unmarried individuals in countries where same-sex marriage is legal.
- Politically motivated criminal prosecution of twenty-seven random participants of the anti-regime Bolotnaya square demonstration on May 6, 2012.
- July 18, 2013 conviction of the most prominent Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny to 5 years of prison camp in another staged, politically motivated case.
We urge world governments and individuals to take a stand for Human Rights and protest against Russia's continuous grievous violations by boycotting 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The boycott is furthermore justified by credible public reports of unprecedented multi-billion dollar corruption surrounding preparations for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, the most expensive Olympics in history.
Petition to the US Administration: http://wh.gov/lCcZD
https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/world-governments-and-leaders-boycott-sochi-olympics-over-human-rights-violations-by-putin-s-regime