Concerns Voiced Over Abducted Chechen Journalist
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posted by zaina19 on August, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/24/2006 2:27 PM Thursday, August 24, 2006 Concerns Voiced Over Abducted Chechen Journalist Chechnya – Ramzan Kadyrov at a rock concert, ‘Phoenix. Revival of life’, in Gudermes, 8 November 2005, file photo (TASS) Ramzan Kadyrov and his militia have been repeatedly accused of abduction, extortion, and other human rights abuses (TASS) PRAGUE, August 24, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Russian and international rights groups are voicing concern over the fate of a reporter who was abducted in Chechnya last week. Elina Ersenoyeva was seized by armed men in the Chechen capital, Grozny, on August 17. Human rights activists say that Ersenoyeva had written to them two days earlier to say she was being harassed by security forces working for Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov's security forces have often been accused of human rights abuses, a charge he denies. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders has called on the Russian and Chechen authorities to take urgent action to ... >> full...
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Ichkerian President’s brother who surrendered was abducted a year ago
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/24/2006 2:32 PM August 23rd 2006 · Prague Watchdog / Umalt Chadayev Ichkerian President’s brother who surrendered was abducted a year ago Umalt Chadayev CHECHNYA - On August 18 the Russian media reported a sensational item of news. Reports linked to the press service of Chechen premier Ramzan Kadyrov announced that Dokka Umarov, who replaced Abdul-Khalim Sadullayev in the post of President of Ichkeria after he was killed in June, intended to lay down his arms. Some time later, Ramzan Kadyrov’s press secretary informed the Interfax news agency that Umarov had personally given himself up to Ramzan Kadyrov in the city of Gudermes. This did not, however, cause a sensation. Later it was announced that it was not Dokka Umarov who had turned himself in, but his elder brother, Akhmad. At a press conference with journalists in Grozny, Akhmad Umarov said he had come to Ramzan ... >> full...
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Austrian Policemen Killed Brother of Chechen Mujahideen Commander
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/20/2006 12:51 AM Austrian Policemen Killed Brother of Chechen Mujahideen Commander Publication time: Today at 01:40 Djokhar time Late evening, August 17, Austrian policemen captured in Vienna a brother of a well-known Chechen Mujahideen commander Husein Isabaev who martyred (Shaheed, insha Allah) in a firefight with Russian kafirs (infidels) in Chechnya a few years ago. His brother, Yakub Isabaev, was captured for unknown reasons by policemen when he was leaving a mosque in Vienna. A few hours later, after Mr Isabaev was brought to a police station, his body was found on the outskirts of Vienna. Yakub Isabaev suffered from a heart desease and his relatives assume that he died during an interrogation in the police station. The Austrian police gave no comments in regard of its kidnapping and killing of Yakub Isabaev. Mr Isabaev left 5 children, reports a source of the Kavkaz Center news agency from ... >> full...
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Lawyer beaten by police official in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/17/2006 6:10 PM August 16th 2006 · Prague Watchdog / Umalt Chadayev Lawyer beaten by police official in Chechnya By Umalt Chadayev GROZNY, Chechnya – On August 15 the acting head of the police station in Chechnya’s Urus-Martanovsky district struck the lawyer of one of the detained. This has been revealed by members of the Memorial human rights centre. According to existing information, on the afternoon of August 15, Zhabrail Abubakarov, a lawyer of the Chechen Bar Association, arrived at the Urus-Martanovsky district police station with his client Adam Pidiyev in order to take part in investigative inquiries. After acquainting himself with a number of materials relating to the case, the lawyer accompanied by the investigator went up to the second floor of the building in order to make a photocopy of one of the documents. In one of the offices. Abubakarov noticed some police officials whom he knew, ... >> full...
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Roundtable Counter-terrorism, Armed Conflicts and Human Rights (Civil G8 Forum)
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/16/2006 2:49 PM Roundtable Counter-terrorism, Armed Conflicts and Human Rights (Civil G8 Forum) http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=3542 Russia / G8 / Counter-terrorism Monday 3 July 2006 On July 3, 2006, a roundtable on human rights entitled СTerrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Armed ConflictsТ was held in Moscow within the framework of the Civil G8 Forum. The participants in this roundtable call on the leaders of G8 countries to acknowledge the grave dangers posed not only by international terrorism and localized armed conflict, but also by state violations of a range of human rights guarantees in the context of the СWar on TerrorТ. Governments often fail to understand that respecting and upholding human rights enhances security, rather than hinders it. As part of government counter-terrorism efforts, key human rights principles have been undermined. Government policies and actions have resulted in a wide range of human rights violations, including: torture or other ill-treatment; unlawful killings; unfair trials; arbitrary detention ... >> full...
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