Federal Registration Service seeks to close down Russian Human Rights Research Centre
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posted by zaina19 on February, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/10/2006 11:48 PM 30.1.2006 14:27 MSK Federal Registration Service seeks to close down Russian Human Rights Research Centre RUSSIA, Moscow. On 26 January it became known that Russian Justice Ministry's Federal Registration Service (FRS) has applied to court to have Russian Human Rights Research Centre closed down. The application was filed with Moscow Basmannyi Court, reports AGORA, interregional association of human rights groups. Alexander Zhafyarov, head of FRS's Office for the Affairs of Political Parties, Public and Religious Associations, stated that "the said public association for over five years hasn't supplied Justice Ministry's FRS with information that would allow it to continue to operate". On 10 January 2006 Justice Ministry refused to update information on the State Register concerning the Centre's new governing Board. Earlier, FRS Director, Serghei Movchan, stated that the decisions by Centre's Conference of 2 November 2004 on establishing a permanent governing organ, the Board, and ... >> full...
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UN commissioner, planted Milosevic, arrived to Moscow
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/21/2006 3:34 PM UN commissioner, planted Milosevic, arrived to Moscow 20.2.2006 The United Nations Supreme commissioner on human rights Luiz Arbur on February 19th arrived to Moscow. On February 20th Arbur will go to Northern Caucasus to meet leaders of Ingushetia, Chechen Republic and Northern Ossetia, as well as nongovernmental organizations. During her trip the chairman of the Council will accompany her on assistance to civil society institutes’ development and human rights at the president of Russia Ella Pamfilova. That was informed by Polit. Ru. Louise Arbur was born in Montreal in 1947. She graduated the Montreal university and Ottawa university, became a member of Ontario province Bar. Worked in legal profession of Quebec and Ontario then got the post of professor of laws and the dean at the legal school "Osgood Hall" of York University. In 1987 she became the constant judge of the Supreme, and then ... >> full...
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Dmitriyevsky appeals sentence of Soviet court
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/21/2006 4:53 PM 15.2.2006 13:12 MSK Dmitriyevsky appeals sentence of Soviet court RUSSIA, Nizhniy Novgorod. Executive Director of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship (ORCHD) and Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper "Human Rights", Stanislav Dmitriyevsky entered a writ of appeal on February 13th, to the Judicial Board for Criminal Cases of the Nizhniy-Novgorod Provincial Court with regard to the sentence imposed by the Soviet district court of Nizhniy Novgorod. On the same day, a writ of appeal was submitted to the provincial court by Dmitriyevsky’s attorney, Leyla Khamzayeva, who lives in Moscow. On February 9th, Yuri Sidorov, another defense attorney, submitted an appeal. The appeals contain demands to revoke his sentence, and to close the criminal case. Information Center ORCHD, reports that, in their complaints, Dmitriyevsky’s lawyers focus on the groundlessness of sentence. Dmitriyevsky, in his complaint, puts special emphasis on the incompetence of expert-linguist Teslenko, who arrived at inaccurate conclusions ... >> full...
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Russia-France summit must potlight NGO protection condemn Kremlin's assault on civil society
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/21/2006 4:55 PM 10.2.2006 20:14 MSK Russia-France summit must potlight NGO protection condemn Kremlin's assault on civil society RUSSIA, Moscow. French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin should use his February 14-15 visit to Moscow to signal France's alarm over Russia's rollback on civil and political freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today. In particular, De Villepin should highlight concern about the new Russian law on nongovernmental organizations and the increasingly hostile environment for Russia's civil society. «De Villepin should make clear that France will not remain silent as the Russian government dismantles civil society," said Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director for Human Rights Watch. "He should emphasize that this issue is of global concern and that it will remain on the top of the Franco-Russian agenda». Human Rights Watch called on France to take the lead in pursuing a policy toward Russia that prioritizes respect for human rights, ... >> full...
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German court rules against deporting Chechyan refugees
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/5/2006 3:52 PM German court rules against deporting Chechyan refugees Germany is not allowed to send Chechyan refugees back home if they risk being persecuted by the Russian authorities, the administrative court of Hessen in central Germany ruled on Thursday. The court in Kassel ruled that if returnees' safety in the rebel province could not be assured, the German authorities had to allow the refugees to remain in Germany and to consider them asylym seekers. It noted that returning Chechyan refugees were often suspected by the Russian forces of being terrorists and were therefore denied their civil rights. According to the German immigration authorities, some 40 percent of the 1,719 Russian asylum seekers that came to Germany in 2005, were from Chechnya, where an 11-year-old conflict with Russian forces still simmers. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on visit to Moscow last month took President Vladimir Putin to task about the ... >> full...
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