Prosecutor's office finds no violations in dispersal of the "Disagreement March" in Moscow
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posted by zaina19 on July, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/6/2007 7:38 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 4/7/2007 Prosecutor's office finds no violations in dispersal of the "Disagreement March" in Moscow The Moscow City Prosecutor's Office has found no excess of official powers by militiamen at dispersal of the "Disagreement March" on April 14, and refused to initiate any criminal cases. Today, an answer has arrived from the City Prosecutor's Office running that "there were no violations at detention and bringing people to territorial Interior Departments (OVDs)," the Public Movement "For Human Rights" reports. The answer of the City Prosecutor's Office states that in total administrative offence protocols were drawn up on 357 citizens. We remind you that a broad-scale "Disagreement March" took place in Moscow on April 14, 2007, and on April 15, a similar action was held in St Petersburg. Law enforcement bodies applied force at dispersal of the demonstrations. According to the organizers of the action, some ... >> full...
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State Duma toughens punishment for extremism
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/6/2007 7:42 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 5/7/2007 State Duma toughens punishment for extremism On July 4, the State Duma approved in the second reading amendments to the Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities," to the Criminal Code and a number of other legislative acts. After debates in the first reading, the bill caused dissatisfaction of the public, and the text of the amendments "was rewritten by 80 percent." In particular, the norm that strengthened the punishment for participation in mass disorders from 8 to 12 years of imprisonment was dropped out of the bill, and in Article "public justification of extremism," the word "extremism" was replaced by "terrorism." Gennady Gudkov, a member of the fraction "Fair Russia," is concerned with the fact that now, because of the new amendments, "it will be possible to tap not only suspects of committing average gravity crimes, which make the majority in the Criminal Code, ... >> full...
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"Voice of Beslan": Beslan residents' complaint to the European Court is legally justified
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/4/2007 3:15 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 3/7/2007 "Voice of Beslan": Beslan residents' complaint to the European Court is legally justified The relatives of the victims of the Beslan terror act have applied for help to the European Court. The applications were signed by 89 victims. On June 27, Ella Kesaeva, representative of the Public Organization "Voice of Beslan," told about it to the IA REGNUM correspondent: "We have passed through all judicial instances of North Ossetia and now in search of the truth are addressing the international court. We think that Russia has breached three Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 2, providing the right to life, Article 6 (right to objective investigation) and Article 13 (right to effective judicial defence)). "The document included the results of our own investigation, which are completely opposite to the official version of the prosecutor's office. It refers to responsibility ... >> full...
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Police break up Borozdinovsk refugee demonstration
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/2/2007 6:46 AM 2.7.2007 12:42 MSK Police break up Borozdinovsk refugee demonstration RUSSIA, Daghestan. The For Human Rights movement reported on June 28 that on June 27, the police broke up a demonstration held by former inhabitants of the Cossack village of Borozdinovsk, who now live in the Nadezhda camp in the Kizlyar region of Daghestan. An activist of the Mothers of Borozdinovsk Committee of Kizlyar, Suduz Fakhrudinova, was severely beaten and sentenced to five days of administrative arrest "for resisting the police". The Kurmagamedovy brothers—Gadzhimurat and Shamil—received the same sentence. They are all being held in the City Internal Affairs Division of Kizlyar. For Human Rights noted in their communication that the true reason for their sentences was their attempt to film the police breakup of the protest action on their cell phones. The coordinators of the Organizing Committee of the Conference of Public Organizations on the Situation ... >> full...
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Serious violations of prisoners’ rights in Kaluga province
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/2/2007 6:50 AM 2.7.2007 12:45 MSK Serious violations of prisoners’ rights in Kaluga province RUSSIA, Moscow. The Committee For Civil Liberties received a June 20 web communication concerning the violation of prisoners' rights in the FGU IR 55/3 GUFSIN camp in the Tovarkovo village in the Kaluga province of Russia. On June 27, the committee warned of dire consequences for prisoners’ lives and health. The statement, directed to Yuri Kalinin, Director of the Russian Federal Service for the Performance of Punishments, in the procuratorship of the Kaluga province, authorized along the rights of man in Russia, the chairman of committee "for the civil liberties" Andrey Babushkin notes: "In connection with the incapacity of the administration to solve a number of problematic questions relative to the rights and responsibilities of the prisoners in this establishment, from 18 May, 2007, into the colony are introduced special units. Are abolished prolonged ... >> full...
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