Journalism Watchdog Condemns Closure of Chechen Rights Group, Fears Silencing of Critical Website
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posted by zaina19 on October, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/14/2006 8:11 AM Journalism Watchdog Condemns Closure of Chechen Rights Group, Fears Silencing of Critical Website 14.10.2006 MosNews The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the closure earlier this week of a Russian nongovernmental organization which publishes an online newspaper regarded as one of the few reliable sources of news on Chechnya, the CPJ said on its official website Friday. The closure comes just six days after the murder in Moscow of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of the Kremlin’s policies in Chechnya. The Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS), a human rights group based in Nizhny Novgorod, southeast of Moscow, was ordered closed earlier this week, by a regional court under new legislation restricting NGOs. The law was enacted by President Vladimir Putin in January amid local and international criticism. RCFS publishes Pravo-Zashchita (Rights Defense) online. The fate of the publication is unclear. A printed edition of Pravo-Zashchita with a circulation ... >> full...
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Persecutions of Georgians in Ivanovo
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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: 10/14/2006 1:19 PM 11.10.2006 16:18 MSK Persecutions of Georgians in Ivanovo RUSSIA, Ivanovo. On October 6, representatives of the Ivanovo National Cultural Georgian Autonomy reported to Chairman of the Ivanovo Public Committee for Human Riights, Deputy of the Provincial Legislative Assembly Sergey Valkov, that in Ivanovo all persons who have Georgian surnames or surnames that are similar are being checked. As reported October 9, by the Public Movement "For Human Rights", in the Valkov area of Ivanovo, all businesses, restaurants, cafes, and stores whose owners have Georgian surnames are being checked, even though they are citizens of Russia, often having served Russia and the USSR. Checks involve the tax inspection service, the migratory service, the Division of Economic and Tax Crimes of the UVD, the sanitation service, and the ... >> full...
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Good statistics demand torture
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/14/2006 1:23 PM 25.9.2006 13:46 MSK Good statistics demand torture INGUSHETIA, Nazran. (CNO). On September 15, in the region of the Nazran Central Market, officers of the Ingush police force detained Chechen forced migrant Imran Dukhigov. According to the Chairman of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Forced Migrants, Aslambek Apayev, the police delivered Dukhigov to the Office of Internal Affairs in Transportation (LOVDT), where they suggested that he "confess" that he was carrying a packet containing narcotic substances. In this case, the policemen told Dukhigov that they had orders from Rostov, and a confession was necessary for department statistics. After Dukhigov refused to slander himself, they subjected him to severe beatings. Fearing for his health, he was forced to sign all papers. After this, Dukhigov was given a packet containing a white substance, which was then "discovered in the search". Dukhigov’s passport was also ... >> full...
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Relatives of killed in Nalchik wait for Constitutional court’s verdict
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/13/2006 3:10 AM Relatives of killed in Nalchik wait for Constitutional court’s verdict 13.10.2006 "We, legal experts, consider that in the events in Nalchik were caused by numerous facts of prosecution against Moslems for their religious belief", - declared the executive director of the All-Russian public movement "For human rights" Lev Ponomarev at the press conference in Moscow devoted to the forthcoming anniversary to the tragical events in Nalchik of October 13, last year. "Unconditionally some representatives of the armed underground, connected with the Chechen insurgents, also participated in the action, but basically the young people, which, to all the attributes, had taken weapon in hands for the first time were lost", - ascertained Ponomarev. As the IA REGNUM correspondent reported, he characterized the tragical event as "a grandiose provocation" and emphasized that the young people being refused to perform religious rituals and exposed to ... >> full...
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Chechen woman abducted looking for missing daughter
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Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/13/2006 7:08 AM Chechen woman abducted looking for missing daughter 12 Oct 2006 16:05:50 GMT Source: Reuters GROZNY, Russia, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The mother of a missing Russian women reported to be the widow of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has herself been abducted, a police detective investigating the case said on Thursday. Elina Ersenoyeva has been missing since Aug. 17 when armed men bundled her into a car in Chechnya's capital. Media quoted her family as saying she was in an arranged marriage with Basayev, Russia's most wanted man who died one month earlier. Her mother Margarita was on her way to meet someone who said they had information about Elina when she too was abducted, police detective Tamirlan Aidamarov said. "What we know is that on Oct. 2, the ... >> full...
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