Slain Russian reporter mourned
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posted by zaina19 on October, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/11/2006 7:20 AM Slain Russian reporter mourned By Peter Finn THE WASHINGTON POST October 11, 2006 MOSCOW – In the House of Farewell, an austere, cavernous funeral hall at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery, the body of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya lay in an open casket yesterday afternoon as thousands of mourners – ambassadors, journalists, civil activists, politicians and ordinary Russians – filed past and paid their final respects. No senior Kremlin official attended – an absence that people noted, along with the almost complete silence of President Vladimir Putin in the immediate wake of the apparent contract killing of Politkovskaya in the lobby of her apartment Saturday. “It's really strange to see none of our senior officials here,” Eduard Sagalayev, chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Corporation, told the assembled mourners. The Kremlin said it was represented by Deputy Culture and Press Minister Leonid Nadirov. Shortly after Politkovskaya's body was laid into the ground, Putin, ... >> full...
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Human Rights Group Is Shut Down
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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: 10/11/2006 3:29 PM Human Rights Group Is Shut Down The Associated Press Prosecutors have acted to close down a human rights group that has regularly exposed abuses against civilians in Chechnya, in what the group's head denounced as an attempt to silence criticism of the war. The Nizhny Novgorod regional prosecutor's office said Wednesday that a court in the city would examine a request from prosecutors to shut down the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society on Thursday. "The government cannot accept any criticism of its conduct in Chechnya," said the group's leader, Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, who linked the threatened closure to the weekend murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. "Whoever ordered it [the killing], it's absolutely clear that the authorities either were directly behind it or at the very least created the conditions ... >> full...
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Adygs ask European parliament to recognize genocide of XVIII-XIX centuries
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/11/2006 4:16 PM Adygs ask European parliament to recognize genocide of XVIII-XIX centuries 12.10.2006 Adygeyan (Circassian) public organizations of Russia, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Syria, the USA, Belgium, Canada and Germany have sent the president of the European parliament Mr. Joseph Borrell Fontelles the reference with request for recognition of the genocide against Adygeyan (Circassian) people within and after the Russian-Caucasian war of the XVIII-XIX centuries. The reference was sent yesterday, but already today, as the vice-president of the public movement of Adygeya "Circassian congress" Zaur Dzeukozhev informed, the organization - initiator of the action received the confirmation in reception of the reference signed by Annika Lopez Lotson, the secretary of the president. In total in the signers’ list there are 20 organizations, said Dzeukozhev. A compact disc with the archival documents written in due time by the Russian imperial war commanders was enclosed to the reference. ... >> full...
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Russian Paper Publishes Slain Reporter's Unfinished Story
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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: 10/12/2006 3:53 PM Russian Paper Publishes Slain Reporter's Unfinished Story Thursday, October 12, 2006 AP * * * MOSCOW — A slain Russian journalist's last story was published Thursday, revealing an unfinished report on torture in Chechnya that some colleagues believe may have motivated her murder. Anna Politkovskaya's article described the torture of terrorism suspects by the Kremlin-backed Chechen security services. It was accompanied by graphic images of abuse taken from a video apparently shot by the torturers. Four pictures reproduced in the Novaya Gazeta paper were accompanied by a Russian translation of the culprits' expletive-filled conversation in Chechen about how hard it was to kill the victims. The images did not reveal the torturers' faces. "Are we fighting legally against lawlessness?" Politkovskaya asked in the article. "Or are we thrashing them with our own lawlessness?" Politkovskaya, 48, was gunned down in ... >> full...
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Murdered Russian Journalist Was Finishing Article on Torture in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/9/2006 12:34 PM Murdered Russian Journalist Was Finishing Article on Torture in Chechnya Publication time: Today at 15:41 Djokhar time A journalist shot to death in an apparent contract killing was about to publish a story about torture and abductions in Chechnya when she was slain, her editor said Sunday as Russia's top prosecutor took charge of the case, AP reports. Anna Politkovskaya, famed for her unsparing coverage of abuses against civilians in Chechnya in the outspoken newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was found dead Saturday in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building. She had two gunshot wounds - one to the head. Politkovskaya, 48, had collected witness accounts and photos of tortured bodies and the article had been due for publication Monday, her newspaper's editors said. "We never got the article, but she had evidence about these (abducted) people and there were photographs," Novaya Gazeta's deputy editor, Vitaly Yerushensky, told ... >> full...
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