Seven Convicted In Murder Of Russian Rights Activist
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posted by zaina19 on August, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/1/2007 9:26 PM
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Seven Convicted In Murder Of Russian Rights Activist
Russia -- Timur Kacharava - russian killed young antifashist. Photo from site http://stop-it.narod.ru
Timur Kacharava was stabbed to death in 2005
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August 1, 2007 -- A jury in St. Petersburg has found seven people, including three minors, guilty of involvement in the murder of a campaigner against hate crimes.
The activist, Timur Kacharava, and a friend were stabbed to death in St. Petersburg in November 2005.
The jury found one of the seven defendants guilty of murdering Kacharava. The others were found guilty of committing violence and inciting ethnic hatred.
Russia has seen a surge in racially motivated crime in recent years. On July 31, the chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia condemned the spread of racist ideology in Russia, and called on authorities to do more to combat hate crimes.
(AP)
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/08/4B2E747B-6142-4D41-8384-2B0DEE6CF828.html
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Russian Ombudsman To Probe Activist's Detention
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/1/2007 9:30 PM
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Russian Ombudsman To Probe Activist's Detention
Russia -- Map, undated
(RFE/RL)
August 1, 2007 -- Russia's human rights ombudsman, Vladimir Lukin, has said he will investigate the case of an opposition activist who says she is being held against her will in a Murmansk psychiatric clinic.
Larisa Arap, a member of the United Civic Front opposition movement, says she is being held at the institution as a reprisal from health workers for negative articles she published in a newspaper. Arap had alleged that patients at another local psychiatric clinic were beaten and sexually abused.
Arap is the head of the Murmansk branch of the United Civic Front. AP quoted a spokeswoman for the movement, Marina Litvinovich, as saying that Arap's detention "smacks of the Soviet-era practice of locking dissenters in psychiatric clinics."
(Reuters, Interfax, AP)
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/08/328D8808-8E4E-4EED-BB9D-7324EE432B86.html
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Russian dissident 'forcibly detained in mental hospital'
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posted by zaina19 on July, 2007 as Human Rights
30 July 2007 13:25 Russian dissident 'forcibly detained in mental hospital' By Alastair Gee in Moscow Published: 30 July 2007 A Russian opposition activist has been forcibly detained in a psychiatric clinic near the Arctic city of Murmansk, the chess champion turned dissident Garry Kasparov said yesterday. The move was revenge by the authorities for an article in which the activist, Larisa Arap, 48, criticised practices in children's mental health wards, Mr Kasparov said. Ms Arap, a member of Mr Kasparov's United Civil Front, is being medicated against her will, he claimed. Activists say this is not the first case of politically motivated, enforced admission to hospital in President Vladimir Putin's Russia, and have condemned the move as redolent of the Soviet era. Mr Kasparov said: "It could happen if you attack the interests of the local Gazprom, the local military base, the local medical mafia. Attacking the interests of local bureaucrats is a terrible risk, because ... >> full...
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Crying Sun The Impact of War in the Mountains of Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/28/2007 1:12 AM Crying Sun The Impact of War in the Mountains of Chechnya Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sO6XMiZwjk Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm23ZZkfEZU Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oPiK6WB2ac “The Crying Sun” (Memorial/WITNESS co-production 2007, 26 min) tells the story of people from the Chechen mountainous village of Zumsoy and their struggle to preserve cultural identity and traditions in the context of military raids and enforced disappearances by the federal army, attacks by guerilla fighters, and subsequent displacement. By helping to articulate the voices of Zumsoy villagers in the public and policy spheres, the video calls on local and federal authorities to end impunity for human rights violations and to restore policies for the return of mountain villagers to their ancestral homes. In the international advocacy fora, the video will help bring visibility to calls for justice in Chechnya. (Author: Zarema Mukusheva; Producers: Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, Shamil Tangiev; Consultant: Ousam Baysaev) * Zarema (Zina) Mukusheva is ... >> full...
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Nature defender dies as result of attack on ecological camp
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/28/2007 7:05 AM 23.7.2007 23:53 MSK Nature defender dies as result of attack on ecological camp Ilya Borodayenko Ilya Borodayenko RUSSIA, Angarsk. Irkutsk region. On July 21, in Angarsk, an ecological camp was attacked. The campers were protesting against the processing of uranium by the Angarsk Electrical Chemical Combine. On July 22, the Union for Chemical Safety reported that ecologist Ilya Borodayenko died in the attack. According to the "Collective Action" Institute, Nazis perpetrated the attack. A Union for Chemical Safety statement about the ecological protest camp in Angarsk stated that: "At 5 A.M. on the 21st of July, our camp was subjected to a severe attack. Some degenerates tore down our tents, burnt and stole our things, and beat those of us sleeping in the tents with hammers, bludgeons, and their feet. They cried out against Antifa (anit-fascist, anti-racist network). The monstrous and deliberate cruelty of their attack leaves ... >> full...
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