Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register April 8 (Reuters) – Russia’s Justice Ministry announced on Friday that it had withdrawn the registration of 15 foreign organizations, including Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch (HRW). The Russian units of the organizations, which also included Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, were “excluded due to the discovery of violations of the current legislation of the Russian Federation,” the ministry said in a statement. The decision, which did not provide details of the violations, was announced a few days after New York-based HRW announced that it had found “several cases of Russian military forces committing violations of the law of war” in Ukraine. read more Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Russia has repeatedly denied allegations of war crimes by Ukraine and Western countries during its six-week invasion of Ukraine, and denies targeting civilians. “There is no doubt that the move was in response to our reports of war in Ukraine,” HRW said. “The Russian government has already made it very clear that it has no use for any information on the protection of civilians in Ukraine. This is just a small additional proof of that,” he said on Twitter. Russia says it is conducting a “special military operation” to demilitarize and “demilitarize” Ukraine. The Kiev government and its Western allies reject it as a false pretext for an unwarranted invasion. Other organizations whose registration was revoked on Friday were a branch of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the Aga Khan Foundation and the Institute of International Education. Nine German organizations were included as well as three from the United States, one from Britain, one from Poland and one from Switzerland. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Conor Humphries in Dublin and David Ljunggren in Ottawa. curated by Grant McCool, Bernard Orr Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
