Once you sign a contract, the mousetrap snaps shut’ — rights advocate expl...

“Once you sign a contract, the mousetrap snaps shut” — rights advocate explains who is being coerced into going to war in Russia

Sergei Krivenko, director of the human rights group Citizen. Army. Law, discussed recruitment practices in connection with reports of roundups in Omsk.

Conscripts are not sent to war, he said, but from their first day they are pressured to sign a contract. Deaths have even been recorded that the conscripts’ parents believed were murders committed because their sons had refused to sign a contract. Migrants and foreign nationals are also among the vulnerable groups.

The circle of people subjected to coercion is constantly expanding, the rights advocate noted. Last year, recruiters began rounding up homeless people and getting people drunk so they could sign contracts on their behalf. Since the spring and summer of this year, he added, they have begun grabbing people right off the street.

Any coercion, in whatever form, is lawlessness,

Krivenko said.

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