Jailed Russian Journalist Allegedly Denied Medical Care
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posted by zaina19 on July, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/17/2006 8:25 AM
Monday, July 17, 2006
Jailed Russian Journalist Allegedly Denied Medical Care
Chechnya – Reconstruction / media – Former House of the Press, now being rebuilt, 16 March 2006. (Size: 220x155)
The former Press House in Grozny under reconstruction in March
(TASS)
July 17, 2006 -- A lawyer for an arrested Russian journalist says that her client, an advocate for Chechnya's independence, is being mistreated in jail.
Boris Stomakhin, editor of the publication "Radikalnaya Politika" (Radical Politics) and a contributing author of the pro-separatist website Kavkaz Center, has been in custody since March.
His lawyer, Karen Nersesyan, says that Stomakhin is being denied medical care.
(AP, Interfax)
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/07/ED351362-3715-4CA1-A0DF-888F3EE6AC5E.html
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Russia condemned in Chechen case
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/27/2006 2:02 PM Russia condemned in Chechen case From correspondents in Strasbourg 28-07-2006 IN a landmark ruling today, the European Court of Human Rights found Russia guilty of violating the "right to life" of a young Chechen who disappeared after a Russian general ordered him shot. Khadzimurat Yandiyev was last seen in the hands of Russian troops in February 2000. Television footage showed a general ordering the 25-year-old to be taken away and "rubbed out". His body has never been found but lawyers for his mother Fatima Bazorkina said the general's words made his fate clear. The court ruled Russia had violated a ban on arbitrary detention and failed to properly investigate his disappearance. "This is a landmark judgment with major importance for the hundreds of other Chechen disappearance cases still pending before the Court," said Ole Solvang, executive director of Russian Justice Initiative, in a statement released in Moscow. The independent rights ... >> full...
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Court due to rule on Chechen case
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/27/2006 3:09 PM Court due to rule on Chechen case Publication time: 27 July 2006, 11:26 The European Court of Human Rights is set to rule in the case of a Chechen man who disappeared after being detained by Russian forces in 1999. The case was brought by the mother of Khadzi-Murat Yandiyev after she saw TV footage in which a Russian officer ordered her son to be shot. However, Russia says there was no formal order to execute Mr Yandiyev and no hard evidence that he is dead. This is the first such case the court is hearing from the Chechen conflict. Khadzi-Murat Yandiyev was arrested during the military campaign to regain control of the capital Grozny in 1999. His mother, Fatima Bazorkina, filed the complaint against Russia in 2001, saying the authorities failed to adequately investigate the case. She spent the last six years trying to find out what happened ... >> full...
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Bush thrusts democracy to fore before Putin talks
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/14/2006 2:01 PM Bush thrusts democracy to fore before Putin talks By Douglas Busvine and Steve Holland ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush put democracy centre-stage ahead of a big-power summit, telling beleaguered Russian rights activists on Friday he would relay their concerns to President Vladimir Putin. But he signalled he would not jeopardise talks with Putin or the Group of Eight summit the Kremlin leader is hosting by clashing openly with him, saying he would instead raise his worries over an erosion of democracy in Russia privately. U.S. President George W. Bush hugs Russian President Vladimir Putin before a social dinner on the grounds of the Konstantinovsky Palace in Stralna, Russia, July 14, 2006. (REUTERS/Jason Reed) "I spent a lot of time listening to their concerns," Bush said after meeting the heads of some dozen Russian charities and pressure groups. Many of them ... >> full...
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Mikhail Trepashkin placed in penal isolation for 15 days
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/11/2006 3:05 AM 11.7.2006 13:41 MSK Mikhail Trepashkin placed in penal isolation for 15 days Mikhail Trepashkin Mikhail Trepashkin RUSSIA, Lower Tagil. Sverdlovsk Region. On July 6th, attorney Mikhail Trepashkin was placed in penal isolation for 15 days. The occasion for this punishment was the fact that he transmitted a rough copy of a complaint to the Superior Court of the Russian Federation via defense attorney, Lyubov Kosik, and not through the administration of the IR -13 penal colony, Kosik reported on July 8. Another of Trepashkin’s attorneys, Elena Liptser, in conversation with a correspondent of PRIMA-News, emphasized that placing her client in isolation (SHIZO) is illegal. Trepashkin is held under supervision in a colony- settling. According to the Criminal-Executive Code, he has the right to send a complaint to the Supreme Court independently. Lyubov Kosik reported that it is cold in SHIZO. On the second day Trepashkin was allowed a ... >> full...
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