Human Rights

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 3/7/2006 4:02 AM
From: "David McDuff" <dmcduff@...>
Date: Mon Mar 6, 2006  12:03 pm
Subject: Open Letter: Declaration of Guilt     

Declaration of Guilt

Open Letter

To the Federal Security Bureau and
anyone else whom this does not concern


I, Svetlana Alexeyevna Gannushkina, Head of the "Civic Assistance"
Committee, Council Member and Director of the "Migration and Rights"
Network of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, and also Member of the
Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation,
wish to make the following confession:

Since 1990 I have undertaken activities which may be considered by
the addressees of this statement as espionage.

From the institutions of the United Nations, the European Union, the
Council of Europe, and certain private Western foundations and
public organizations, I have received financial resources for the
bank accounts of NGOs, resources which in accordance with previously-
planned actions have served to purchase food products, personal
items and medicaments for internally displaced persons and refugees.
The acquired ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 3/3/2006 12:33 AM
DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL APOLOGIZES ON BEHALF OF DANES
01.03.2006 - 12:00:00

(Coharkale/Ajans Kafkas) - The director of the Danish Refugee Council, Per Albert Ilsaas, has offered apologies to the Muslims of Chechnya on behalf of his fellow countrymen, the Chechen presidential press-service has informed.

In Coharkale, Ilsaas met with the chief of the Chechen government's commission for the affairs of displaced persons, Adam Alkhanov, and Chechen presidential adviser for the affairs of humanitarian organizations, Akhmed Ismailov.

Stating that the Danish Refugee Council criticized the publication of caricature images of the Prophet Mohammed by a private Danish newspaper, Ilsaas said "We offer our apologies to all Muslims of the Chechen Republic on behalf of our fellow countrymen. Provocateurs exist everywhere, and Denmark is no exception."

Alkhanov and Ismailov explained the reason for suspending the activities of the Refugee Council in Chechnya.

The Danish Refugee Council is resuming its activities ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 3/3/2006 12:51 AM
Former Guantanamo prisoner Rasul Kudaev was returned to Nalchik pending trial prison
KABARDINO-BALKARIA, 2 March, Caucasus Times. Rasul Kudaev, former Guantanamo prisoner suspected of involvement in the attack on law enforcement agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria in October last year, was returned to pending trial prison in Nalchik from pending trial prison in neighboring Pyatigorsk.

Sources in Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry told CaucasusTimes correspondent that now Rasul Kudaev will be treated under more favorable conditions of imprisonment. In the words of the sources, pending trial prison in Nalchik has recently moved to a new five-stored building with the prison cells equipped with refrigerator and televison in addition to regular equipment.

Numerous arrests of the participants of the attack on Nalchik in October last year led to overcrowding of the old prison in Nalchik. In the words of the sources from Interior Ministry, with the new building of prison ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 3/3/2006 1:50 AM
Lawmakers accuse Russia of abuses in Chechnya
Europe must not by duped by Russian claims that Moscow is fighting a war against terror in Chechnya and turn a blind eye to abuses committed in the rebel province, lawmakers participating in a conference here said Monday.
 
"Russia is busy deceiving the world by saying that the war in Chechnya is a war against terrorism. The truth is that Russia is carrying out a determined policy to annihilate the Chechen people," Lithuanian lawmaker Rytas Kupcinskas, one of the organisers of the conference, told a press conference.
 
The seminar on Chechnya was held to mark the 62nd anniversary of what Chechens call Deportation Day. On February 23, 1944, almost half a million Chechens and Ingush were forcibly moved to central Asia, on orders from then Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
 
Lawmakers from Estonia, Georgia and Lithuania who took part in ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 3/3/2006 3:54 AM
OPPOSITION CONGRESS: "THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA"
03.03.2006 - 11:45:00

(Moscow/Ajans Kafkas) - The All-Russian People's Congress public union, leaded by human rights campaigner Lyudmila Alexeyeva and fomer chess World Champion Gary Kasparov have called on the parliaments on G8 countries to react to the changes in Russia's social and political life, which the congress called negative.

Congress's statement that was published at a press conference in Moscow on Thursday says:

"Note what is happening in Russia and begin to react to the situation in our country adequately. Take into account the fact that there is no democracy in modern Russia when you build your relations with the regime…The electoral system of Russia has been destroyed, the parliament is fully under control of the executive authorities, and in essence, a single-party system has been established. Courts at all levels have been integrated into the vertical ...
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