JRL NEWSWATCH: “What we know so far about Moscow’s custody challenge against two parents who were seen with their toddler at an election protest” – Meduza

“Moscow prosecutors are pursuing a custody challenge against a couple who brought their one-year-old child to a … protest for fair elections. … [T]he city’s Prosecutorial Office claimed that ‘during the course of the protest, the parents gave their young child to a third party, which put the boy’s health and life in danger and caused him physical and emotional harm.’ Later on, the second clause … was deleted …. Government human rights officials and a federal senator criticized the … custody challenge …. I rina Kirkora … of Russia’s Presidential Council on Human Rights[] said that bringing a child to an unsanctioned protest and giving that child to someone else does not provide the government with grounds to take away a parent’s custody rights, meaning that prosecutors who bring such a case have broken the law. …”

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