The so-called Helsinki Agreements” – Alexei Sokolov's lawyer shared his indictment with RusNews, where the agreements were accused of “comprehensive pressure on the Russian Federation”.
Back in July, in the discussion of the "extremist symbol display" case for the Facebook logo*, Sokolov told RusNews that a case of "treason" was opened against him because the activist Marin, during a search, discovered correspondence with a lawyer from Paris. From this he concluded that the French GRU was interested in the colonies of the Sverdlovsk region. The investigation also pointed to publications about Sokolov's case in the media with the status of a "foreign agent" and his visa to Norway as alleged signs of cooperation with an "undesirable organization." The file materials already talked about transfers from the "Norwegian Helsinki Committee"**.
Today, Sokolov's defense attorney told a RusNews reporter that the final indictment includes reports he sent to the "Norwegian Helsinki Commission" on human rights violations in detention centers and pre-trial colonies.
"In 1977, in the Kingdom of Norway in Oslo, to monitor countries' compliance with the so-called Helsinki Agreements on security and human rights, a foreign non-governmental organization called the Norwegian Helsinki Committee was founded. From the moment of its establishment, the activity of this foreign organization had a strategic goal of exerting comprehensive pressure on the Soviet Union, on many issues of exploitation of human rights of the Soviet Union, and then on many issues of exploitation of Russia. of such activity is the subject of violations of the rights of prisoners in the system of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service," the indictment reads.
For a long time, the organization operated legally in Russia and actively funded Russian human rights projects, in particular programs to protect the rights of prisoners in FSIN institutions.
And on the basis of the "so-called Helsing Agreements" the OSCE was created, of which Russia is still a member.