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posted by zaina19 on August, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/1/2006 12:05 AM Monday, July 31, 2006 Russia: 'They Are Trying To Break Him' Russia – Yukos / personalities – Inna Khodorkovskaya traveling to Krasnokamensk, Chita Region, where her husband, former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is serving a jail term in a penal colony, 29 October 2005. (Size: 220x155.) Inna Khodorkovskaya en route from Moscow to the penal colony at which her husband is serving his jail term, close to the Chinese border (file photo) (TASS) Inna Khodorkovskaya tells RFE/RL about the impact of prison on her husband, the former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and the pressures she faces from the authorities. PRAGUE, July 31, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Since Mikhail Khodorkovsky was imprisoned three years ago, his wife and their three children have lived in a house in the leafy Moscow suburb of Zhukovka. MORE: The complete interview in Russian. The building and the land around it is -- or rather was -- owned ... >> full...
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Russian Proxies Set a Cut Human Head in a Chechen Village
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/1/2006 8:37 PM Russian Proxies Set a Cut Human Head in a Chechen Village Publication time: 1 August 2006, 22:49 On July 28, 2006, about 20 cars of Russian proxies came to the center of Chechen village Kurchaloi and set a severed human head onto a pipe. Under the head they hang blood-stained trousers. The head belonged to a Chechen commander Hodj Ahmed Dushaev. The head was filmed by the proxies for two hours and was removed from the pipe only next day. The trousers remained hanging on the pipe. The \"action\" was carried out by an order of chief Russian proxy in Chechnya, Kadyrov. The Russians certainly knew in advance and approved this "action". Before the Russian occupation, Russian and Western Democratic media lamented purported "Medieval atrocities" in public executions by shooting of criminals on verdicts of Sharia Courts in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. This time the ... >> full...
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OCHA Humanitarian action in Chechnya and Neighbouring Republics (Russian Federation) Jun 2006
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posted by zaina19 on July, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/29/2006 4:28 PM Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Date: 30 Jun 2006 OCHA Humanitarian action in Chechnya and Neighbouring Republics (Russian Federation) Jun 2006 HIGHLIGHTS World Refugee Day celebrated in North Caucasus During 15–20 June, UNHCR organized events to celebrate the World Refugee Day in Ingushetia, Chechnya and North Ossetia. These included a series of concerts, creativity festivals and community events. On the eve of the World Refugee Day, UNHCR and the Alliance of Regional Media Managers organized a workshop in Rostov-on-Don for some 40 journalists from the Southern Federal District. Donor Missions to North Caucasus On 1-3 June, Benelux Ambassadors to Russia visited the North Caucasus. They travelled to Grozny to donate 600 sets of emergency medical aid and an intensive care ambulance to the Chechen medical system. The diplomats met with Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov to discuss humanitarian aid for Chechnya. On 5-9 June, USAID representatives participated in a mission facilitated by ... >> full...
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Activists, Reporters Also Called a Threat
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/31/2006 5:10 PM Activists, Reporters Also Called a Threat By Carl Schreck Staff Writer Three months after then-President Boris Yeltsin named Vladimir Putin as prime minister, a steady stream of foreigners connected with nongovernmental groups and media organizations began having their Russian visas denied. Most had been living in Russia for years, and their work had involved Chechnya, the environment, democracy and other issues. Yeltsin plucked Putin from his post as director of the Federal Security Service in August 1999. The government's apparent reason for denying most of the visas was that it considered the foreigners' work a state security risk. At least one of those foreigners, Greenpeace International activist Tobias MЯnchmeyer, obtained documents indicating that he was considered a security threat. MЯnchmeyer, a German national who first came to Russia in 1991 as a graduate student, was denied a visa in December 1999 and sought explanations from the Foreign Ministry and in ... >> full...
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Chechnya: Court Condemns Russia For 'Disappearance'
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/28/2006 7:32 AM Thursday, July 27, 2006 Chechnya: Court Condemns Russia For 'Disappearance' By Robert Parsons France/Russia -- European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, 8 Dec. 2005 Fatima Bazorkina during a court session in December 2005 (archive photo) (epa) PRAGUE, July 27, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has held Russia responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of a Chechen man. Khadzhi-Murat Yandiyev disappeared in 1999 after being detained by Russian troops. His mother brought the case against Russia in 2001 on the grounds that the Russian authorities had failed adequately to investigate the case. She alleged that Russian troops murdered her son. Landmark Case It is the first time the European Court of Human Rights has heard a case like this from Russia. It is thought it could now set a precedent for hundreds of other cases concerning disappearances in Chechnya. For Fatima Bazorkina, mother ... >> full...
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