Saturday, February 8, 2014

Sochi: The Arrests Begin

It looks like Russia may have broken its first Olympic record already -- at least sixty-one human rights activists arrested on the first day. They include Anastasia Smirnova, one of Russia's bravest and most prominent gay rights activists; her crime was to unveil a banner that quoted Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter: "Discrimination is incompatible with the Olympic Movement."

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