Torture confirmed in Kabardino-Balkaria
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posted by zaina19 on December, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/8/2005 2:13 AM 5/12/2005 Torture confirmed in Kabardino-Balkaria International human rights organisations and the leading global media received 15 photographs of people arrested in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Nalchik, with marks of beating. This is what Ms Alexandra Zernova, lawyer of the former Russian prisoners of Guantanamo Bay, reported from London. One of the pictures features her defendant Rasul Kudayev who was arrested ten days after the Nalchik attack. The lawyer confessed that at first she did not even recognise Rasul whom she had last seen shortly before the October events: "He has a swelling in the lower part of his face, and his features and the proportions of his face are different. Investigators believe that they will able to conceal torture, but the photographs testify against them. We know that he has had his leg broken during torture and now they drag him for interrogations." Ms Zernova also ... >> full...
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Putin made legal the main racist and anti-Semitic force in the southern Russia
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/8/2005 2:35 AM Putin made legal the main racist and anti-Semitic force in the southern Russia PRAGUE, 7 December, Caucasus Times. Few days ago Russian President Vladimir Putin sign a law “On State Service of the Russian Cossacks”, which sets legal and organizational framework for the use of Cossacks in state, civil, military and law enforcement services. Commenting on the new Russian law Deputy Governor of Rostov Oblast, Chief of Great Don Cossack Army General Viktor Vodolacky said on Wednesday in his interview to Interfax that in his opinion main role of Cossacks in the North Caucasus Republics is “preventing interethnic conflicts, easing social tension and maintaining good relations with all peoples in the North Caucasus”. In his opinion, new federal law regulates “the activities of Cossacks in a number of the Russian subjects of federation. In Rostov Oblast this work is going on quite well. In other ... >> full...
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Lawyer Larisa Dorogova: “general Ermolov is back in the North Caucasus”
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/8/2005 3:03 AM Lawyer Larisa Dorogova: “general Ermolov is back in the North Caucasus” KABARDINO-BALKARIA, 6 December, Caucasus Times. Search for those involved in the attack on Nalchik on 13-14 October this year is still continuing in Kabardino-Balkaria. Lawyer Larisa Dorogova who is dealing with the cases of violation of rights of the Muslim population informed CaucasusTimes correspondent about the cases when armed patrols of the law enforcement agencies mostly from the neighboring regions stop city transport including taxi cabs, check the documents and often force men to leave transport to check their documents. At times, members of law enforcement agencies force local men to undress in order to check their undeclothes – there is quite widespread opinion in the region that vakhkhabists don’t wear underclothes. There are numerous indications that Muslim believers are often harrassed in their working places. Thus, entrepreneur from the village of Shalushki who ... >> full...
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Muslims dislike Russian Emblem
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/8/2005 5:03 AM 6 of December, 10:14 Muslims dislike Russian Emblem
Muslims dislike Russian Emblem The majority of Muslim leaders and scientists appeal to remove Orthodox symbolism from Russian Emblem. They consider that Emblem must symbolize multi-confessionalism and multi-nationality of Russian state.
As the chairman of Religious Administration of Asian Russian Muslims Nafigul Ashirov said, right protecting organizations put a question about aptitude of religious symbols in attributes or organs of state authority for a long time, and Muslims consolidate with them. http://news.rin.ru/eng/news///3339/
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Nikolas K. Gvosdev International Herald Tribune
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/8/2005 8:44 AM International Herald Tribune Russia's NGOs: It's not so simple Nikolas K. Gvosdev International Herald Tribune THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 WASHINGTON Who advocated prohibiting a nongovernmental organization that declared itself to be in opposition to the government from receiving funding from foreign sources? Vladimir Putin, 2005? Try Al Gore, 1996. Of course, context is everything - when the NGO in question was Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam and the generous benefactor was Libya's leader, Muammar el-Qaddafi. No doubt this is the precedent the Russian government would like the West to focus on, as a controversial bill makes its way through the Duma, Russia's Parliament, that would require all NGOs operating in the country to register with a state commission and place serious restrictions on the ability of foreign groups to fund and support Russian NGOs. The legislation has been described by leading members of the governing United Russia party as ... >> full...
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