Amnesty International said Russia's recruitment of foreign nationals to fight in Ukraine often amounts to human trafficking. [1] The briefing filed deception, confiscated passports, and short training. [1] Al Jazeera filed the same accusation on Thursday. [2] A briefing is not a court finding. Print Amnesty's sentence. Do not print a Hague stamp.

Amnesty cannot investigate freely inside Russia after a ban. That limit belongs in the same graf as the claim. Prisoners of war in Ukrainian camps are the interview base, not a census of 130 countries. Print the briefing. Leave a named indictment to the edition that owns a named indictment.

A briefing remains a briefing, not a docket this Moscow desk can certify.
Print deception as Amnesty's word. Thursday is not a trafficking verdict.

Interviewing prisoners of war yields testimony, not census data. One hundred thirty countries is Amnesty's extrapolation. Thursday prints the briefing with the methodology attached.

Attached methodologies invite scrutiny; Thursday attaches Amnesty's. Scrutiny takes months. Extrapolations hold till then.

Months of scrutiny wait; Thursday prints Amnesty's 130-country briefing. Testimony, not census. Deception is the word.

Thursday prints Amnesty's 130-country briefing. Testimony, not census. Deception is the word.

Amnesty's Thursday accusation treats foreign recruitment as trafficking by deception, with the Russia ban sitting in the same graf. Al Jazeera carried the charge. Short training and seized papers are the method in the briefing. This Moscow desk will not print a court finding.
Al Jazeera carried the charge. Thursday's accusation is not a court finding. Testimony, not census.

Al Jazeera carried the charge. Thursday's accusation is not a court finding. Testimony, not census.

-- KATYA VOLKOV, Moscow