Some Muslims took part in southern Russia attack last October - campaigner
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posted by zaina19 on February, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/6/2006 2:03 AM Some Muslims took part in southern Russia attack last October - campaigner KABARDA-BALKARIA, 3 February, Caucasus Times - Some Kabarda-Balkar Muslims, who shortly before the events of 13 October [2005] asked the Russian authorities to give them the opportunity to leave the republic and move to another country, took part in the attack on the power-wielding structures of Kabarda-Balkaria on 13 October, Larisa Dorogova, a Kabarda-Balkar lawyer representing the interests of the opposition section of the Muslims of Kabarda-Balkaria, said in an interview to a Caucasus Times correspondent. She said that some of the 400 Muslims who signed an appeal asking for the opportunity to leave for a permanent place of residence in any Muslim country died during the attack on the power-wielding structures of Kabarda-Balkaria on 13 October last year. "Some of those who signed the letter died during the attack on the power-wielding ... >> full...
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is going to attend North Caucasus
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/6/2006 2:06 AM United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is going to attend North Caucasus MOSCOW, 2 February Caucasus Times. Luisa Arbur, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is planning to visit Russia on 19-25 February. Interfax agency referring to Viktoria Zotikova, Public Relations Consultant to United Nations Coordinator in Russia, reported that the visit is scheduled for 19-25 February and has a rich program. In the words of Zotikova, Luisa Arbur will visit St-Petersburg, North Caucasus and Moscow where she is going to have a number of high-level meetings. “Taking into account that North Caucasus region will be given a lot of attention during Arbur’s visit, situation in this region will be one of the most important issues during the meetings”, - Zotikova noticed. In the meantime, sources in the South Federal District informed that Arbur is planning to attend Chechnya and Ingushetia, to familiarize herself ... >> full...
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Russia: Activist’s Conviction Hurts Freedom of Expression
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/6/2006 2:48 PM HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Russia: Activist’s Conviction Hurts Freedom of Expression (Moscow, February 4, 2006) – The conviction of a Russian human rights defender who highlighted abuses in the conflict in Chechnya is an unacceptable infringement on freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 3, a court in Nizhny Novgorod convicted Stanislav Dmitrievsky, executive director of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society and editor of the organization’s newspaper Pravozashchita, on charges of “inciting racial hatred,” and handed down a two-year suspended sentence. The charges stem from the publication in Pravozashchita of two statements by Chechen rebel leaders Aslan Maskhadov and Akhmed Zakaev. “The state’s case against Dmitrievsky was politically motivated and he should be exonerated,” said Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Freedom of speech is in real jeopardy in Russia, and the Dmitrievsky case sends an unmistakable message to ... >> full...
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KBR Ministry of Internal Affairs brings action against "New Gazette", journalist Politkovskaja and lawyer Komissarova
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/2/2006 2:52 PM In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful KBR Ministry of Internal Affairs brings action against "New Gazette", journalist Politkovskaja and lawyer Komissarova As it became known to "Caucasian unit" correspondent, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kabardino-Balkaria had submitted in Nalchik town court a statement of claim "about protection of professional reputation and indemnification of moral harm". Journalist of "New Gazette" Anna Politkovskaja and lawyer Irina Komissarova were named respondents. As occasion for the claim Politkovskaja’s article published in #87 "Nalchik a Month Later. The Way Investigation Goes” served that in the claimants’ opinion, contained facts "are mismatching reality, invented and in that way discredit professional reputation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of KBR". Facts, discrediting professional reputation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of KBR, authors of the claim specified information on tortures of arrested persons. "The author of the article in ... >> full...
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Picket in Adygeya: What "Union of Slavs" achieves
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/2/2006 2:57 PM In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful Picket in Adygeya: What "Union of Slavs" achieves The picket organized by Adyghe Khase and ”Circassian congress” of Adygeya, passed today, on February 1st, in Maykop on the main square of republic. That action, according to its organizers, was directed against "xenofobia, national intolerance, chauvinism", as Caucasus Times correspondent reported. According to different estimations, on the square not less than 500 people gathered. It is necessary to note that thickness of the snow cover on this day was more than 50 sm, and many of the gathered regarded the fact that the square by the moment of the picket’s carrying out remained not cleared as a kind of sabotage of the town mayoralty which had authorized for carrying out of the picket but had not taken care of people which should gather. At carrying out of the ... >> full...
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