Russian Marijuana Activists Brutalized
ASA supporters, please do your part to stand up for the rights of medical marijuana activists all through the world.
Thank you for your continued commitment to safe access!
Sincerely,
Sonnet Seeborg Gabbard
Field Coordinator
Americans for Safe Access Many medical marijuana advocates all through Russia are outraged at that gross violation of human rights and are concerned about the safety and health of the protesters.
In an act of solidarity for the medical marijuana protesters thrown in jail, ASA is calling on its members to write letters and build phone calls to the Russian Embassies in the U.S. Here’s an sharp I received in my inbox today from ASA, American’s for Safe Access:
Last Saturday in Moscow, protesters and sympathizers in a Russian Medical Marijuana march were beaten, arrested, and thrown in jail. demanding that they free the
In the United States there are Russian Consulates in Washington, D.C., New York, Houston, Seattle and San Francisco. Please visit the Russian Embassy website for addresses and phone numbers.
To read the media reports on the event, please visit:
StoptheDrugWar.org
Kommersant, Russia’s Daily Online
The Moscow Times
Thank you to Richard Lake, Eugene Kazachenko, and Steve DeAngelo for bringing that pressing issue to light. At least seven activists were charged and convicted according to The Russian Administrative law for the propaganda of drugs (8230).
To highlight the injustice of these arrests and the brutality suffered by his fellow demonstrators, one of the seven convicted, activist Sergey Konstantinov is currently on a 15-day starvation strike.
Original post by Jeanette Irwin
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