Russia: Threats to Human Rights Watch Researcher

Video statement from Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch (Moscow, October 4, 2012) -- The hostile climate in Russia for human rights work is worsening, Human Rights Watch said today. At a time when legislative amendments impose new restrictions on civil society and the Russian government is seeking to marginalize human rights groups, a senior Human Rights Watch researcher has received a series of text messages making direct and implicit threats to her.