Cambridge pupil fined for giving feminism talk in Russia throughout sinister crackdown on visa violations

here is the 2nd time a foreign alternate scholar has been rapped via Russian officers for supposed visa violations.

ultimate month a German exchange scholar was expelled from St. Petersburg State institution and fined four,000 roubles (£50) for interviewing environmental protesters within the Russian city of Chelyabinsk then publishing a piece of writing about it on a German information web page.

Police instructed Lukas Latz, an eastern European reviews undergraduate from Berlin, that publishing the article constituted "work" and this violated the phrases of his student visa.

Lukas had insisted he wrote the article as part of his grasp’s thesis on environmental activism in Russia.

Now Amnesty foreign has spoke out about alternate students in Russia being handled like criminals, which they say is becoming increasingly commonplace.

Natalia Prilutskaya, Amnesty international’s Russia Researcher, observed: “We’re seeing more and more instances like this in Russia - where completely official activism and even religious observance from overseas students are being handled as criminal offences.

“In two fresh situations in Nizhnii Novgorod, for instance, college students from African countries had been prosecuted for ‘missionary’ actions with regards to their attendance at a Protestant church.

“foreign places college students are whatever thing of a delicate goal for the authorities, while the broader context is that any individual in Russia is at risk of persecution if they take part in political protests or activism of any kind.”