Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Loening, Markus

“I am very outraged at the guilty verdict. The verdict does not cast the conditions in Russia in a good light, [It is] an example of political abuse of the justice system. [President] Dmitry Medvedev’s rhetoric about the rule of law is exactly that – mere rhetoric. The judgment is a crass misinterpretation of what happened in court”

Markus Loening, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, December 2010