29 Nizhny Novgorod protestors charged for administrative offences
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posted by zaina19 on March, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/25/2007 3:33 AM
Mar 25 2007 10:53AM
29 Nizhny Novgorod protestors charged for administrative offences
NIZHNY NOVGOROD. March 25 (Interfax) - Administrative charges have been brought against 29 demonstrators in Saturday's March of Dissent in Nizhny Novgorod, regional police told Interfax on Sunday.
Their cases have been referred to a court, a police official said.
In all, 102 people were detained on Saturday, including 25 at the venue of the march, in Gorky Square. Twenty-two of those detained claimed they were members of radical organizations, he said.
Eleven of the demonstrators detained had arrived from Moscow, six from St.Petersburg, one from Tatarstan and one is a citizen of Latvia.
Twelve journalists were detained, among them four foreign reporters. They were questioned and released, police said. sd
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?menu=1&id_issue=11699089
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Prague Remembers Anna Politkovskaya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Prague Remembers Anna Politkovskaya Prague remembers Anna Politkovskaya By Tomáš Vršovský PRAGUE, Czech Republic – A public reading from a book by the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered in Moscow on October 7, 2006, took place in the Czech capital on Tuesday. The event was part of an initiative organized by the Berlin-based Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics, which yesterday also helped to co-ordinate similar public readings in memory of Politkovskaya in some 20 countries around the world. The event in Prague’s Café Jericho began with a screening of the documentary film Till Death Do Us Part. The film was made by Czech war correspondents from the Epicentrum news agency, and it tells the story of a pair of journalists – the German radio reporter Gisbert Mrozek and the Russian reporter Natalya Alyakina. Alyakina was murdered by Russian soldiers near the town of Budyonnovsk on June 17, 1995, but her husband ... >> full...
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Nizhny-Novgorod District Court maintains prohibition on "Dissenters' March "
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/24/2007 1:53 PM 24.3.2007 02:56 MSK Nizhny-Novgorod District Court maintains prohibition on "Dissenters' March " RUSSIA, Nizhny Novgorod. On March 22, the Nizhny-Novgorod District Court denied the organizers of the "Dissenter's March " in their action against City Hall, which refused to permit them to march in the city center. This was reported by the United Civil Front and the Organizing Committee of the Nizhniy-Novgorod "Dissenters' March". The Organizing Committee asked City Hall to allow the March 24 procession in the center of Nizhniy Novgorod. However, City Hall refused to give permission and proposed the group transfer the "March" to Leninsky Square near the river. Furthermore, the Organizing Committee for the "Dissenters' March " reports that managers of stores on Bolshoi Pokrovskoy St have received visits from officials. They were told that on March 24 skinheads from all over the country will descend on Nizhniy Novgorod armed with incendiary bottles, ... >> full...
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Russian Police Detain Dozens At Anti-Kremlin Rally
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/24/2007 7:32 PM Saturday, March 24, 2007 Russian Police Detain Dozens At Anti-Kremlin Rally Russia -- map (RFE/RL) March 24, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Russian riot police have detained dozens of activists at an opposition rally in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, RFE/RL's Russian Service reported. Authorities had not given permission to hold the rally on a square in the city center as planned. MORE: Coverage in Russian from RFE/RL's Russian Service. Despite the presence of hundreds of riot police, several hundred protesters gathered in the vicinity of the square. Organizers told RFE/RL that police dragged dozens of activists into police buses and took them to police stations. Dozens of activists were also reportedly detained on their way to the rally. The rally was part of a protest movement known as the "March of the Discontented" that is being organized by liberal and leftist forces. Its leaders include former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, former world chess ... >> full...
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Russia’s Oldest Opposition Party Liquidated Over Low Numbers
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/24/2007 7:46 PM Image from Lenta.ru web-site Image from Lenta.ru web-site Russia’s Oldest Opposition Party Liquidated Over Low Numbers 34.03.2007 MosNews The Supreme Court ordered has the liquidation of one of Russia’s oldest opposition parties after registration authorities said it had too few members to qualify, the Reuters news agency reported on Saturday. The ruling against the Republican Party is the latest move against Russia’s marginalised opposition ahead of parliamentary elections in December and presidential polls next March. Critics say the Kremlin wants to stifle dissent before the votes. “The rights of tens of thousands of Russian citizens have been violated by this ruling,” one of the Republican Party’s leaders, Vladimir Ryzhkov, told reporters outside the court. He said the party would challenge the ruling in the Supreme Court’s ruling presidium and further in the Strasbourg court of human rights. The Republican Party, formed by pro-democracy defectors from the Soviet Communist Party, emerged in ... >> full...
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