Lengthy court procedures, enforcement plague Russia's justice system - Strasbourg court
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posted by zaina19 on September, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/10/2007 1:42 AM Aug 3 2007 12:40PM Lengthy court procedures, enforcement plague Russia's justice system - Strasbourg court MOSCOW. Aug 3 (Interfax) - President of the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) Jean-Paul Costa has called on Russia to reduce the time defendants are held in custody. The main problems that the Strasbourg Court sees in Russia is "failure to enforce court rulings," and "the long time a case takes in the courts," Costa said. "But again, this is not only Russia's 'disease', but also that of Eastern European countries, and Italy (a champion, a case can take up to 20 years there) and France. Another example is the situation in Russian prisons. A similar problem also exists in Ukraine. And finally, too lengthy pre-trial detentions," Costa said in an interview with the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper published on Friday. The Russian correctional system is in poor condition, and it can ... >> full...
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Politkovskaya Nominated For Top EU Human Rights Prize
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/10/2007 8:18 AM Monday, September 10, 2007 Politkovskaya Nominated For Top EU Human Rights Prize Russia -- Meeting of memory of Anna Politkovskaya, Moscow - 30aug2007 A rally in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow on August 30 (RFE/RL) September 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been nominated for the European Union's top human rights award. The EU's Human Rights Unit told RFE/RL that Politkovskaya is among the candidates for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Politkovskaya, who wrote frequently about rights abuses in the restive Russian republic of Chechnya, was gunned down in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment in October 2006. Other candidates for the prize include an Afghan women's rights defender and lawmaker, Joya Malalai; Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew; two Chinese rights defenders; and a Sudanese human rights attorney. A short-list of three will be announced on September 24, with the winner chosen in October. The Sakharov ... >> full...
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Greenpeace supporters protest in Sydney
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/9/2007 7:20 AM Greenpeace supporters protest in Sydney 07 Sep 2007 Source: Reuters Greenpeace supporters wearing masks of Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Australia's Prime Minister John Howard (2nd L) protest in Sydney September 7, 2007, against the announcement that Australia will sell uranium to Russia, ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum leaders' summit at the weekend. REUTERS/WILL BURGESS http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/pictures/SYD33.htm
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Book Says Yeltsin Blocked Serb's Arrest
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/9/2007 3:54 PM Monday, September 10, 2007 Book Says Yeltsin Blocked Serb's Arrest Reuters
BELGRADE -- President Boris Yeltsin blocked the arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic in 1997, and U.S. President Bill Clinton persuaded France's Jacques Chirac not to insist on it, a new book says.
Florence Hartmann, former spokeswoman at the Hague tribunal for Yugoslavia, recounts in in "Peace and Punishment" how Clinton persuaded Chirac not to push the issue.
Hartmann says they met at the Elysee Palace in Paris in May 1997, 17 months after the peace accords that ended the 1992-95 Bosnia war. Chirac, fuming over the capture of two French pilots by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995, wanted to expunge the affront. "Clinton stressed that the operation could not be undertaken without informing the Russians. Chirac was opposed," she writes. But Clinton insisted, and Chirac finally gave in. Karadzic remains at large.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2007/09/10/015.html
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Reporter for the independent biweekly Novaya Gazeta, murdered in Moscow on 7 October
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/6/2007 3:38 PM Anna Politkovskaya Reporter for the independent biweekly Novaya Gazeta, murdered in Moscow on 7 October Sign the petition calling for an international commission of enquiry in order to establish the truth about Anna Politkovskaya’s murder on 7 October in Moscow. Sign the petition (JPEG) Anna Politkovskaya, murdered in her Moscow apartment building on 7 October 2006, was one of the few Russian journalists reporting on events in Chechnya. An illustrated article by her on torture there had been due to appear on 9 October in the twice-weekly newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Her killer did not even trouble to hide his face or deactivate the building’s surveillance camera. He has not yet been identified. Politkovskaya, who had two children, was born in 1958 in New York, where her Russian-Ukrainian parents were Soviet diplomats for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). She studied journalism at Moscow University ... >> full...
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