The Finnish branch of the human rights organization Amnesty International was left without donations from about 400 individuals. This happened after a scandalous report on the Armed Forces of Ukraine, writes MTV Uutiset.
In particular, the Executive Director of Amnesty Finland, Frank Johansson, said that this week the number of people who stopped donating increased..
“The final figures, apparently, will be visible only in early September, when we receive information about all August donations,” Johansson said..
At the same time, he added that after the scandalous report, new donors appeared in the organization..
According to AI, she has about 40,000 donors in Finland.. The number of those who stopped providing funds is about 1% of all donors.
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On August 4, the organization released a report alleging that in repelling Russian aggression, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are “endangering” civilians by setting up bases and deploying weapons in residential areas, abandoned hospitals and schools..
Experts criticized the report as theorizing war and having nothing to do with real combat.
The Times devoted an article to the report, which accused human rights activists of promoting Russian narratives. The Ukrainian branch did not participate in the preparation of the report, the next day after the publication, the head of AI in Ukraine, Oksana Pokalchuk, quit.
Later, the organization apologized for the “suffering and anger” caused by the publication of the report, but stressed that they did not abandon the conclusions given in it that, by repelling Russian aggression, the Armed Forces of Ukraine “endangered” civilians..