Interfax: Russia expects West, rights organizations to react to Ukrainian bill on preventive detentions

MOSCOW. April 1 (Interfax) – Russia is waiting for the West to react to the bill on preventive detentions of persons suspected of plotting crimes against national security, submitted to the Ukrainian parliament.

“The Russian side is waiting for its Western partners – the ‘staunch’ advocates of democratic reform, including in the post-Soviet space – to respond to the Ukrainian leadership’s recent initiative. We also hope that Russian, Ukrainian and foreign human rights organizations will react accordingly,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a commentary on Tuesday.

“The bill would authorize the detentions of Ukrainian citizens who pose a threat to Ukraine and the Ukrainian public’s interests, and to the country’s territorial integrity. It would also introduce temporary rules of preventive detentions of persons ‘suspected of plotting or committing crimes against Ukraine’s national security,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.