Ponomaryov Detained by Authorities
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/23/2007 12:52 AM http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/04/23/013.html Monday, April 23, 2007 Ponomaryov Detained by Authorities The Associated Press Human rights activist and Kremlin critic Lev Ponomaryov said he and four others had been detained Sunday near a central Moscow street where police beat demonstrators during an opposition protest last week. "They shoved us into a bus quite rudely," Ponomaryov said by mobile phone from a police precinct. Later on Sunday, Ponomaryov said he and the others had been released after three hours, adding that he had been accused of taking part in an illegal gathering and faced a court hearing. He said at least 30 people had gathered near the site of the Dissenters' March, held April 14. It was intended to be a quiet display of defiance and a rebuke to the authorities for crackdowns on the Moscow rally and one the following day in St. Petersburg. On Saturday, opposition leader Garry Kasparov ... >> full...
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/23/2007 1:58 AM Friday, April 20, 2007 March Victims Speak Out By Galina Stolyarova Staff Writer Valery Zhelanov fought back tears as he watched amateur footage of OMON riot police kicking a young man as they dragged him to a police car. The victim is Zhelanov’s son Artyom, a political science student, who went to watch the Dissenters’ March on Sunday because of his academic interest in democratic protest. But, says Zhelanov, Artyom was suddenly grabbed and assaulted by officers. Held overnight, he appeared in court on Monday, and was ordered to pay a fine for “shouting obscenities” and then released. Artyom Zhelanov was among 120 people who are reported to have been detained by police during the protest demonstration organized by The Other Russia coalition last Sunday. Police violence against the protesters and bystanders during last weekend’s opposition rallies made international headlines and drew criticism from foreign governments. Russia’s ombudsman Vladimir Lukin ... >> full...
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Rights Activists Report New Detentions Over Moscow Street Protests
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/23/2007 2:16 AM Moscow policemen detain a young radical protester on Sunday, photo from Lenta.ru web-site Moscow policemen detain a young radical protester on Sunday, photo from Lenta.ru web-site Rights Activists Report New Detentions Over Moscow Street Protests 23.04.2007 MosNews Moscow police on Sunday arrested five civil rights activists taking part in a public stroll in the same areas where a week earlier police had attacked and arrested demonstrators, the DPA news agency reported. Around two dozen persons followed a call by civil rights groups simply to take a stroll in central Moscow in the areas where a week earlier special OMON police forces, using batons, charged and beat up marchers in a protest demonstration against President Vladimir Putin. Lyudmila Alexeyeva, chairwoman of the Moscow branch of the Helsinki Group human rights organisation, criticized the arrests on Sunday as the “crudest violation of human rights. ” She noted that the participants on Sunday were ... >> full...
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Human rights solidarity meeting planned in Moscow
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/24/2007 2:09 AM
24.4.2007 10:49 MSK
Human rights solidarity meeting planned in Moscow
RUSSIA, Moscow. On April 12, in Moscow, the Helsinki Group and the movement "For Human Rights" applied to Moscow City Hall to conduct a human rights meeting "Solidarity in the Fight for Constitutional Rights and Freedom" on April 26 from 6:00pm 8:00pm in Novopushkinsky Square ", reported "For Human Rights" on April 17.
The organizers of the action intend to express protest against the violation of civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights and freedoms, to focus the attention of society on the need for solidarity actions, and to express protest against limitations on democracy.
Since the meeting will be of a non-party nature, human rights activists request participants in the action not to bring party paraphernalia.
Translated by OM Kenney
PRIMA-News Agency [2007-04-17-Rus-24]
http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2007/4/24/38067.html
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Some Russian officials should be forbidden entrance into the EU and the USA
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/24/2007 2:13 AM 24.4.2007 10:51 MSK Some Russian officials should be forbidden entrance into the EU and the USA RUSSIA, Moscow. Russian human rights activists proposed that Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Army General Rashid Nurgaliyev, Commander of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Army General Nikolai Rogozhkin, Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, Governor of Saint Petersburg, Valentin Matviyenko, and Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Vadim Bulavinov, be forbidden entry into the EU and the US. Their initiative is based on limitations to the fundamental rights of citizens to conduct processions and meetings and violence against participants in protest actions. These officials bear responsibility for attacks on participants in the "Marches of Dissenters", according to human rights activists. A statement, published on April 19 by the movement " For Human Rights", said specifically: "Your countries made a decision to prohibit entrance to representatives of the ... >> full...
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