Former Russian Guantanamo Inmate Seeks Asylum in Netherlands
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2007 as Human Rights
Photo — MosNews archive Photo — MosNews archive Former Russian Guantanamo Inmate Seeks Asylum in Netherlands
04.04.2007
MosNews
A former Russian inmate at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has requested political asylum in the Netherlands, citing his lawyer and the organization Human Rights Watch, the RIA Novosti news agency reported April 4.
The paper said Shamil Khazhiyev had fought on the side of the Taliban movement and was arrested by the Americans in Afghanistan or Pakistan in 2002 and held at the Guantanamo camp.
In 2004, he was handed over to Russian authorities, together with six other detainees.
His lawyer, John Walls, said Khazhiyev has been harassed by Russian security services, making it unsafe for him to stay in Russia.
While Dutch authorities are considering Khazhiyev’s request, Walls advised him not to talk to reporters.
Khazhiyev left Russia in March and is now in a refugee camp in the Netherlands.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/04/04/Guantanamo.shtml
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Never taking no for an answer
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/1/2007 1:43 AM Times Online Logo 222 x 25 From The Sunday Times April 1, 2007 Never taking no for an answer Thomas de Waal A RUSSIAN DIARY by Anna Politkovskaya, translated by Arch Tait Harvill Secker £17.99 Anna Politkovskaya, Russia’s bravest human-rights journalist, who was murdered last October in Moscow, is generally described as a critic of Vladimir Putin. She was that, but so much more. Anna was one of the world’s difficult people, who would not take “no” for an answer, in defending those whose rights had been trampled on – whether Chechen villagers, bullied Russian soldiers, orphans, the relatives of those killed in terrorist incidents. When I last saw her, at a conference in Sweden, shortly before her murder, she was castigating members of the Russian human-rights community for not doing enough to defend Chechens framed on dubious terrorist charges. Anna held everyone to the highest standards and found ... >> full...
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Kidnappers were RUBOP Officers
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/1/2007 2:15 AM 31.3.2007 18:22 MSK Kidnappers were RUBOP Officers RUSSIA, Ingushetia, Nazran. On March 29 in Ingushetia, officers of North Ossetian law-enforcement agencies kidnapped local residents, according to the human rights center "Memorial". At about 5:20pm, three cars attempted to pass through the DPS (Road Patrol Service) post on the border of Ingushetia in Nazran-Kamaz. DPS MVD officers of Ingushetia stopped the cars for inspection. It turned out that they were officers of the RUBOP (Russian anti-Organized Crime unit) and MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs) of North Ossetia. In one of the cars (a "Gazel'") was a resident of Ingushetia, kidnapped by the "siloviki" (military or security officials). According to unconfirmed information, one additional kidnapped person was in another car. (BAZ -2107). The DPS officers demanded an explanation from the RUBOP officers for why they were taking these people. At this time, the relatives of the kidnapped drove ... >> full...
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Slain Russian Reporter Politkovskaya Gets UNESCO Award
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posted by zaina19 on March, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/31/2007 3:38 AM Photo: AP Photo: AP Slain Russian Reporter Politkovskaya Gets UNESCO Award 30.03.2007 MosNews UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura, designated Anna Politkovskaya, the late Russian journalist, as the laureate of the 2007 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, the agency reported on its web-site oin Friday. Kavi Chongkittavorn, President of the UNESCO/Guillermo World Cano Press Freedom Prize jury of fourteen professional journalists and editors from all over the world, explained the jury’s choice: “Anna Politkovskaya showed incredible courage and stubbornness in chronicling events in Chechnya after the whole world had given up on that conflict. Her dedication and fearless pursuits of the truth set the highest benchmark of journalism, not only for Russia but for the rest of the world. Indeed, Anna’s courage and commitment were so remarkable, that we decided, for the first time, to award the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize posthumously.” Born in 1958, Ms Politkovskaya studied at ... >> full...
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Putin Club Pickets Georgia's Embassy
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/31/2007 4:26 AM Friday, March 30, 2007 Putin Club Pickets Georgia's Embassy By David Nowak Staff Writer Igor Tabakov / MT Members of the Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Fan Club demonstrating outside the Georgian Embassy on Thursday. It made for an eerily silent protest: 18 orange-clad teenagers standing on the street, each spaced three meters from the next, all reading Tuesday's issue of Kommersant outside the Georgian Embassy on Thursday. The teenagers, members of a group called the Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Fan Club, said they were protesting Georgia's decision to sue Russia at the European Court of Human Rights. That was Kommersant's front-page story that day, though few of the activists standing in the midday sun seemed clued in to the details of the lawsuit, in which Georgia is suing for damages over Russia's deportation of thousands of its citizens last year. "We want to show our respect for Putin," said Yulia, 17, ... >> full...
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