Letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
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posted by zaina19 on October, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/1/2006 5:03 AM HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw Rt Hon Jack Straw MP Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Foreign and Commonwealth Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH 9th September 2004 Dear Foreign Secretary Human Rights Watch was dismayed to learn that the planned launch of the UK government’s Human Rights Annual Report, previously scheduled for Thursday 16 September, has been delayed. We understand that publication of the report at this time is deemed “inappropriate”, in the light of the terrible events in Beslan. The scenes that we have seen from Middle School No 1 in Beslan in recent days are deeply shocking. The callous brutality of those who have shown themselves willing to blow up large numbers of innocent young children, including on their first day at school, is difficult to overstate. The deaths at Beslan are an ... >> full...
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In Rogue Russia, Psychiatry Is Again a Tool Against Dissent
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posted by zaina19 on September, 2006 as Human Rights
rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/30/2006 11:02 AM In Rogue Russia, Psychiatry Is Again a Tool Against Dissent Publication time: Today at 18:05 Djokhar time On March 23, police and emergency medical personnel stormed Marina Trutko's home, breaking down her apartment door and quickly subduing her with an injection of haloperidol, a powerful tranquilizer. One policeman put her 78-year-old mother, Valentina, in a storage closet while Trutko, 42, was carried out to a waiting ambulance. It took her to the nearby Psychiatric Hospital No. 14. The former nuclear scientist, a vocal activist and public defender for several years in this city 70 miles north of Moscow, spent the next six weeks undergoing a daily regimen of injections and drugs to treat what was diagnosed as a "paranoid personality disorder", The Washington Post reportedю Trutko is new evidence that Soviet-style forced psychiatry has reemerged in Russia as a weapon to intimidate or discredit citizens who ... >> full...
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/30/2006 12:07 PM UNITED NATIONS Press Release xxxxxxxxxx COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES FORTY-THIRD SESSION xxxxxxxxxx Committee on the Rights of the Child ROUND-UP 29 September 2006 Issues Conclusions on Reports of Samoa, Ethiopia, Oman, Kiribati, Swaziland, Senegal, Republic of Congo, Benin, Ireland, and Jordan The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded today its forty-third session and issued its conclusions and recommendations on the situation of children in Samoa, Ethiopia, Oman, Kiribati, Swaziland, Senegal, Republic of Congo, Benin, Ireland, and Jordan, all of whose reports on efforts to comply with the Convention on the Rights of the Child were considered during the session. The reports of Syria, Denmark and Viet Nam on efforts to comply with the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography were also examined. The Committee further took up the reports of Kazakhstan and Viet Nam on efforts to ... >> full...
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Three people abducted in Serzhen-Yurt
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/28/2006 7:10 PM September 28th 2006 · Prague Watchdog / Ruslan Isayev Three people abducted in Serzhen-Yurt
By Ruslan Isayev
CHECHNYA - Two young men were arrested by soldiers at a checkpoint near the Chechen village of Serzhen-Yurt on Wednesday.
Aslan Zukharayev of Serzhen-Yurt, and Musa Batsiyev of the village of Goyskoye in the Urus-Martanovsky district, both aged 30, were driving to the district town of Shali when they were stopped by soldiers. Batsiyev was visiting Serzhen-Yurt.
So far their families have been unable to find out where they are. The military refuses to admit responsibility for their disappearance.
And today information about another abduction in Serzhen-Yurt was received. Chechen law enforcers seized 40 year-old Abdulbek Zubayrayev who has been an invalid since childhood. He’s being allegedly held by the Kadyrovite forces in the nearby village of Avtury. http://www.watchdog.cz/?show=000000-000008-000001-000423&lang=1
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September - new outbreak of nationalism
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/29/2006 7:08 AM Posted on Fri, Sep. 29, 2006 September - new outbreak of nationalism By Marianna Belenkaya RIA Novosti (MCT) MOSCOW - The murder of the imam of a mosque in Kislovodsk, the slaying of an Indian student, the robbery of a Sudanese citizen in St. Petersburg, attacks on mosques and synagogues in a number of Russian cities on the eve of the main Jewish and Muslim holidays. ... Are we witnessing another outbreak of xenophobia in Russia, or are these actions deliberate provocations? Let's make one thing clear from the start - the Prosecutor's Office has instituted criminal proceedings in all these cases under different sections of the penal code. In the case of the imam's murder, legal action is being taken under three items of the criminal code of the Russian Federation - manslaughter, illegal bearing and storage of arms, and resistance to the police. The main version ... >> full...
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