俄羅斯依照外國代理人法起訴活動人士大綱

Russia has for the first time charged a human rights activist for failing to comply with its vague "foreign agents" law, Human Rights Watch said Monday.

On Monday, Russian authorities informed Valentina Cherevatenko, chair of the coordination board of "Women of the Don Union", that they were bringing criminal charges against her.

Russian authorities said Cherevatenko was aware that she was required to register her organization as a "foreign agent" because it received foreign funding, but she neglected to do so.

Russian authorities have been using a “foreign agents” law from 2012 to blacklist groups receiving international funding and engaging in activities deemed political. The vague law implies such activities are disloyal and has been applied to more than 100 Russian organizations, many of them charities forced to scale back their activities or shut down.

The law gives prosecutors the power to shut down any foreign and international organizations in Russia deemed a threat, and to fine and imprison any Russian repeat offenders working with them for up to six years.人權觀察組織星期一說，俄羅斯首次根據含混的所謂“外國代理人法”起訴人權活動人士。

俄羅斯當局星期一告知女性權益組織負責人瓦倫蒂娜·切雷瓦坦科，她受到刑事起訴。

俄羅斯當局說，該組織接受外國資助，因此切雷瓦坦科知道應將該組織作爲“外國代理人”進行登記，但她沒有依法辦事。

2012年以來，俄羅斯當局利用“外國代理人法”將接受外國資助和參與政治活動的組織列入黑名單。這一含混的法律認爲這些組織的行爲帶有背叛性，俄羅斯已有100多個組織因爲這一法律被列入黑名單，其中不少是慈善機構，他們被迫減少活動，或停止運作。

這項法律授權檢察機構取締任何被視爲威脅的外國及國際組織，此外，檢察機構還有權對屢教不改爲這些組織工作的俄羅斯公民進行罰款和監禁，刑期最高6年。