Resident of Grozny has been found dead
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posted by zaina19 on March, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/1/2006 12:33 AM
Resident of Grozny has been found dead
On 20.03.2006 the service personnel of Ortyabrsky district police office of Grozny discovered a male corpse in house #50 in Spartak Street. The corpse was later identified as Alyshev Vladimir Il’ich (born 1949). According to a source within the Ministry of the Interior of the republic, the corpse bore no signs of violent death.
(From our correspondent)
http://www.ria.hrnnov.ru/eng/modules.php?name=News&file=view&sid=1099
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Notable Russian Citizens Create Anti-Fascist Association
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/1/2006 1:09 AM Photo from www.newsru.com Photo from www.newsru.com Notable Russian Citizens Create Anti-Fascist Association 31.03.2006 MosNews A group of Russian citizens have announced the creation of a public association to resist fascism. In an address to the Russian parliament, they urged for a step-up in the fight against xenophobia and Nazi ideologies. “Many civil servants, MPs, law enforcement officers and media groups are prone to xenophobia and allow themselves to make nationalistic remarks and moves, playing on the darkest instincts and prejudices of ordinary people,” the address quoted by Interfax news agency read. The activists, including Senator Lyudmila Narusova, CSKA football team head coach Valery Gazzayev, singer and State Duma member Alexander Rozenbaum, and Valery Tishkov, director of the Ethnography and Anthropology Institute and Public Chamber member, called upon parliament “urgently to examine the laws against xenophobia and tighten control over their enforcement.” They insisted that “the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian ... >> full...
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/30/2006 10:19 AM News Update Mar 23 Russian Movement For Human Rights demanded the resignation of Nikolay Shepel, deputy prosecutor general in the Southern Federal District, alleging that he had a chauvinistic attitude to the peoples of the North Caucasus. Mar 22 South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoiti said he plans to file a suit at Russia's Constitutional Court in pursuit of his aim of uniting South with North Ossetia within Russian borders. Mar 22 Gennady Bukayev, aide to the Russian prime minister, told a meeting in Vladikavkaz that his country's leadership has agreed in principle that South Ossetia can accede to the Russian Federation. Mar 22 The government of Cyprus demanded a guarantee from Azerbaijan that it will never recognise Turkish north Cyprus, and will not authorise flights to the unrecognised territory. Mar 22 The World Health Organisation reported that avian flu virus H5N1 has ... >> full...
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Professor from Nizhniy-Novgorod threatened with extradition to Uzbekistan
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/30/2006 10:33 AM 28.3.2006 13:39 MSK Professor from Nizhniy-Novgorod threatened with extradition to Uzbekistan RUSSIA, Moscow. On March 26th, at the Yaroslavl station in Moscow, Russian resident and citizen of Uzbekistan, Doctor of Economics Professor Farukh Aknazarov, was detained. Uzbek law-enforcement agencies have been conducting an international search for him on charges of embezzlement. He was placed in a temporary OVD holding area at the Moscow- Leningrad station in Moscow. Friends of Aknazarov in Moscow reported to the Civil Assistance Committee that two years ago he was forced to leave his post as Rector of Tashkent's Institute of Irrigation by the new Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyaev – Aknazarov’s former colleague at Institute. According to the information provided by Civil Assistance sources, Mirziyaev might have feared what Aknazarov knew of the past activity of the premier. The Secretary General of the Uzbek Democratic Party "Erk", Atanazar Arifov, who ... >> full...
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UN torture investigator to visit Russia, Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/30/2006 1:21 PM UN torture investigator to visit Russia, Chechnya March 30, 2006 GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. investigator on torture said on Thursday that Moscow had agreed to let him visit Russia, including the troubled region of Chechnya -- the first such trip by a U.N. torture envoy in more than a decade. Manfred Nowak said the visit was likely to take place in September or October. "I am very confident that the visit will take place in one of those two months," Nowak told a news briefing. "The concerns are very well-known. Because of the conflict going on, there are very, very serious allegations of torture and ill-treatment," he added, declining to provide details. Russia has some 100,000 troops in Chechnya and says the province is returning to normal and the 11-year war that has killed tens of thousands of Chechens is all but over. Yet clashes erupt daily ... >> full...
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