Mikhail Sinelnikov: Double Standards of Human Rights in the US and Russia

US authorities sentenced 63-year-old Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai to imprisonment. The head of the American Board of Kashmir is a fault of for lobbying the interests of Islamabad in the US. The evidence is considerable sums of money he received from Pakistan. His Russian "colleagues" are not only free, but also enjoy the high title of "human rights defenders". The news can be presented, for example, like this: "American authorities sentenced to prison the oldest human rights activist of the United States, 63-year-old Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai. Most of his life, Fai contributed to peace in the world, promoting democracy and strengthening the friendship of people, heading the Kashmiri American Council, a non-governmental organization (NGO) located in Washington, DC and founded in 1990. The events, certainly, suggest that the US totalitarian regime prosecutes uncompromising fighters for human rights, and then turns them into "prisoners of conscience." We will not forget and forgive!" The same piece of news may be presented in another way: "The US Justice Department is authorized to state that the Federal Court of the Eastern District of Virginia has sentenced a US citizen Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai to two years in prison, and a subsequent three-year stay under open surveillance by authorities for participation in the conspiracy aimed at secret funding of his lobbying efforts in the United States related to Kashmir by Pakistan's government." The human rights activist Fai violated FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act), the American law regulating the activities of NGOs receiving financial support from abroad. Under this law, all foreign grants must first be registered with the relevant services to the penny, and second, must be spent exactly on the purposes for which they have been allocated.