UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Monday that the international community had lost "one of its greatest" human rights defenders with the death of Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a prominent Soviet and Russian rights activist.
GENEVA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 10th December, 2018) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Monday that the international community had lost "one of its greatest" human rights defenders with the death of Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a prominent Soviet and Russian rights activist.
"I have learned with sadness that the human rights community has lost one of its greatest human rights defenders, Ms. Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva. She was a Russian historian, leading human rights activist and founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group. She was an intrepid defender of the rights of vulnerable people in Russia and beyond," Bachelet said in a statement.
According to Bachelet, Alexeyeva's life and work "inspired generations of human rights defenders around the globe."
On Saturday, the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights said that Alexeyeva had died at the age of 91 in Moscow.
Alexeyeva was a prominent Soviet dissident and one of the founding members of the Moscow Helsinki Group, which was aimed at monitoring the Soviet Union's compliance with the Helsinki Accords. She continued to be an active rights defender to her last day.
