EC must stand firm on issue of human rights in Russia
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posted by zaina19 on November, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/24/2006 2:24 AM 24.11.2006 10:33 MSK EC must stand firm on issue of human rights in Russia BELGIUM, Brussels. Human rights organisation “Amnesty International” said, on the eve of a high-level meeting between Russia and the EC scheduled for the 24 November, that the European Union must take a firmer position on the issue of human rights when it meets with Russia President, Vladimir Putin, In a reportentitled “Amnesty International The Russian Federation: torture of prisoners and forced confessions” issued on 22 November the scale with which torture is used in places of detention is documented. The stories of victims, backed up by circumstantial and medical evidence, demonstrates that torture has a place throughout Russia. Amnesty International was told of beatings, torture using electricity and even “a rape room”, in which there was a metal table with arm restraints – used as a means of exacting “confessions”. Another method was ... >> full...
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Russian Invaders Repress Muslims in Occupied Itil-Ural
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/24/2006 6:45 AM Russian Invaders Repress Muslims in Occupied Itil-Ural Publication time: Today at 17:35 Djokhar time "Prosecutors" in Tatarstan, a province in the Russian-occupied Muslim state of Itil-Ural, have charged 17 people with planning a series of sabotage acts during last year's celebrations marking a millennium since the regional capital's was founded, a Russian terrorist entity, Prosecutor General's Office, said Thursday. The 17 defendants are accused of membership in an alleged Mujahideen group called Islamic Jamaat, and are charged with "crimes" including sabotage, weapons possession and preaching Islam, a statement said. "Prosecutors" have submitted the case to a puppet "tatarstan's supreme court", meaning it could go to occupiers' trial soon. No attacks took place during Kazan's millennium celebrations. Investigators also claim the defendants carried out nine executions of apostates, and they also were charged with other activity including arrests of ... >> full...
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Grave human rights situation in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/21/2006 12:32 PM November 19th 2006 · Prague Watchdog / Umalt Chadayev Grave human rights situation in Chechnya By Umalt Chadayev CHECHNYA - Chechen human rights defenders agree with the conclusions of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) briefing paper on the continuing torture and abduction of relatives of alleged members of armed units. The paper, which was published by the international organization last week and which documents the presence in Chechnya of secret prisons, the use of torture on detainees, and hostage-taking involving the abduction of separatists’ relatives, met with a negative response from the Moscow-backed Chechen government. In an interview for the Kommersant newspaper, Chechen deputy prime minister Ziyad Sabsabi said that there is no torture in Chechnya. "If cases of torture really took place, we would speak about this problem, and so would prisoners’ relatives,” the deputy prime minister claimed. However, HRW workers who ... >> full...
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If you want to be healthy...
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/21/2006 12:36 PM 20.11.2006 21:27 MSK If you want to be healthy... In the summer of this year, camp guards found two lemons in the personal effects of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. They judged that since the lemons could not have been received during visits, and he could not have acquired them at the camp store, the lemons must have been obtained from other prisoners. For this offense, Khodorkovsky received ten 10 days in penal isolation (SHIZO), or more simply stated, a punishment room. It not was absolute arbitrariness on the part of the camp’s administration to punish Khodorkovsky. It was in line with the "Rules of Internal Regulation of Penitentiaries", introduced by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in November 2005. Paragraph 4 Point 15 of these ... >> full...
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Probe into ex-KGB agent poisoning
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/19/2006 8:04 PM BBC NEWS Probe into ex-KGB agent poisoning UK police are investigating after a Russian former security agent in exile in Britain was poisoned by thallium. Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB colonel and critic of President Vladimir Putin, fell ill on 1 November after a meeting at a London sushi bar. A clinical toxicologist said the 43-year-old had been poisoned with a potentially lethal dose of the metal. Mr Litvinenko is in a serious but stable condition in University College Hospital, London. He is reported to be under armed guard. '50/50 chance' Mr Litvinenko had been investigating the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a harsh critic of Mr Putin and Russian policy in Chechnya, who was killed in Moscow last month. Speaking to the BBC last week, he said a contact ... >> full...
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