Criminal case opened on student’s death in Moscow
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/13/2006 7:22 AM
Criminal case opened on student’s death in Moscow
11.04.2006, 17.55
MOSCOW, April 11 (Itar-Tass) -- Criminal proceedings have been opened on the death of a Moscow college student from Tuva, a city police source told Itar-Tass.
The case is based on the charges of deliberate heavy bodily damage causing death, he said.
The 19-year-old freshman of the Moscow State Linguistic Institute Chechek Yumbuu was found on a vacant lot in front of 19, Mariinsky Park Street on April 9. “Coroners said she died of a brain injury on April 8,” the source said. The police found the woman’s wallet, identification documents and a music player. They have several theories of the death.
http://itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=6204784&PageNum=2
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A photo of hazing victim, Andrey Sychev, is seen through the grates at the military registration and enlistment office.
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/13/2006 7:47 AM POLITICS / KOMMERSANT Daily, APRIL 13, 2006 KMindex Politics Open Gallery... A photo of hazing victim, Andrey Sychev, is seen through the grates at the military registration and enlistment office. Photo: Mikhail Pochuev PACE Condemns Dedovshchina Nobody Knows Where The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) focused late Thursday on the report on human rights in Armed Forces. The situation in the Russian Army gives rise to particular anxiety, PACE decided. The report author, Alexander Arabadjiev of Bulgaria, offered to PACE the appalling statistics compiled by the Soldiers’ Mothers Committee, the nongovernmental organization of Russia. According to Soldiers’ Mothers, 3,000 regular soldiers annually die in Russia’s Army, first of all, because of severe conditions of service, vicious hazing and abuse. The hazing, or dedovshchina, is as common in the Army as before and the authorities are still unable even to grasp the extent of the problem. In 2005, the ... >> full...
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Humanitarian worker detained in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/12/2006 9:44 PM 11.4.2006 13:08 MSK Humanitarian worker detained in Chechnya CHECHNYA, Sernovodsk Village. On the morning of April 9th, 2006, near the Chechen village of Sernovodsk on the Rostov - Baku route, the authorities detained Bulat Chilayev, colleague of the local office of the "Civil Assistance" Committee, and Aslan Israilov, an inhabitant of Grozny. As of the second-half of the day on April 10th , their whereabouts were unknown. According to the Human Rights Center "Memorial" and the "Civil Assistance" Committee, on the evening of April 8th, at approximately 9:10p.m., three Sernovodsk residents were killed: Timur Shamilev, born 1982, Artur Shamilev, born 1987, and Arsen Shamilev born 1986. Timur Shamilev worked with the police in the Sunzhensky ROVD, in Groznyy, in the anti-terrorist center. According to his neighbors, Timur Shamilev was zealous in his police work. On April 8th, Timur Shamilev arrived home to Sernovodsk in his car. ... >> full...
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UN high commissioner meets with refugees in North Ossetia
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/10/2006 8:55 AM UN high commissioner meets with refugees in North Ossetia 09.04.2006, 17.50 VLADIKAVKAZ, April 9 (Itar-Tass) -- UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has visited a settlement of refugees from Georgia and South Ossetia in North Ossetia on Sunday. The settlement was built under the UN program for the accommodation of refugees. North Ossetian Premier Alexander Merkulov and head of the Pravoberezhny district administration Vladimir Khodov told Guterres that the main problem of refugees is unemployment. “There is no other work but seasonal for these people. Each spring they go to the Ingush border and collect wild leek, which they later sell at a marketplace,” Khodov said. Guterres spoke to refuges in the villages of Tsalyk and Gizel. “The local administration has assigned a bus for young people who study in Vladikavkaz so that they do not spend money. The main problem, unemployment, remains although people were promised ... >> full...
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Racism In Russia Reportedly Kills Six, Injures 79 This Year
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/9/2006 2:23 AM
Racism In Russia Reportedly Kills Six, Injures 79 This Year
Written by Interfax, AFP
Saturday, 08 April 2006
Human rights activists say six people were killed and 79 injured in racist attacks in Russia this year
Galina Kozhevnikova, the deputy director of the Sova nongovernmental organization, said that 40 such attacks were recorded in Russia over the past three months.
She said racially motivated crime was growing in Russia.
Theodoros Pangalos, the rapporteur on Russia in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, on April 5 urged Russian lawmakers to pass laws toughening the punishment for racially and ethnically motivated crimes.
http://www.sosglobe.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=655&Itemid=28
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