Russian security services refuse entry to observer in court case against Stanislav Dmitriyevskiy
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posted by zaina19 on November, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/18/2005 4:41 AM 16.11.2005 21:06 MSK Russian security services refuse entry to observer in court case against Stanislav Dmitriyevskiy RUSSIA, Nizhniy Novgorod. (Russian-Chechen Friendship Society Information Centre). On 15 November, barrister Bill Bowring was refused entry into Russia after he had landed in Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow. Professor Bowring was travelling to Nizhniy Novgorod to attend a court hearing on 16 November as an observer in connection with the case of Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, editor-in-chief of Pravo-Zashchita newspaper, who is accused of inciting racial, ethnic and social hostility. Barrister Bill Bowring, who flew in to Sheremetievo-2 from London, had been held at the airport for more than four hours by a member of Federal Security Service (FSB), after which he was refused entry into the country without any further explanations. Professor Bowring had a valid Russian visa that allowed him a free entry into Russia. Bill Bowring, Professor of Human ... >> full...
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Tatarstan resident awarded three million rubles for four years of illegal imprisonment
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/18/2005 4:46 AM 11.11.2005 11:58 MSK Tatarstan resident awarded three million rubles for four years of illegal imprisonment RUSSIA, Tatarstan, Almetevsk. On November 9th, the Almetevsky City Court awarded Yevgeny Vedenin three million rubles as moral compensation for illegal imprisonment. Vedenin was accused of murder and spent almost four years in a penal colony. The Board of the Exchequer of Russia is paying the unprecedented sum, reported the Human Rights Center of Kazan. On May 20th, 2001, the police detained Vedenin in his apartment. “With no explanation, they pointed at guns at me, placed me on the floor, put handcuffs on me and drove me to the UVD,” described Vedenin. As it turned out, this was the day Aleksandr Kalyakin, Chief of Security for TatNeft was killed. Yevgeny Vedenin became the only suspect in the murder of a man he didn’t even know. The charge was based on the ... >> full...
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Human Rights Watch reports ill-treatment of Nalchik suspects
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/18/2005 4:13 PM Nov 18 2005 7:07PM Human Rights Watch reports ill-treatment of Nalchik suspects
MOSCOW. NOV 18 (Interfax) - Human Rights Watch has called on Russian law enforcement agencies to observe human rights while investigating the attack on Nalchik, the capital city of the Russian North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Barlkaria, in October this year.
"Russian law enforcement officials have used ill-treatment to coerce confessions from suspects in the October 13 armed attacks in the Northern Caucasus city of Nalchik," Human Rights Watch said in a statement on November 18.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11423291
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Human rights defenders win trial
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/19/2005 11:55 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 14/11/2005 Human rights defenders win trial At a meeting on 14 November, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court overruled the claim for liquidation of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) brought by the Main Registration Department of the Justice Ministry of the Russian Federation for the Nizhny Novgorod region, Regnum news agency was told by the RCFS. The decision may be appealed within ten days. The Main Department of the Federal Registration Service of the Justice Ministry for the Nizhny Novgorod region (MD FRS) brought the claim for liquidation of the RCFS in April. The MD FRS was proceeding with an extraordinary examination of the RCFS when it requested documents concerning the organisation's financial operations. However, the documents had been seized by the Nizhny Novgorod District Tax Inspection of Nizhny Novgorod for an examination by that moment, so they could not be submitted to the department. ... >> full...
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Protests planned after soldiers kill three Chechen civilians
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/19/2005 12:57 PM Nov 19 2005 5:14PM Protests planned after soldiers kill three Chechen civilians
MOSCOW. Nov 19 (Interfax) - Rights groups plan large-scale protests in Chechnya in response to the November 16 killing of three Chechen civilians by Russian soldiers on the outskirts of the Chechen capital Grozny, Nurdi Nukhazhiyev, head of Chechnya's constitutional rights defense service, said on Saturday.
The late night incident occurred on Said Baduyev Street on the outskirts of the village of Staraya Sunzha.
"Persons in camouflage uniforms and masks who identified themselves as law enforcement officials arrested Yusup Usmanov, Khusain Akhmadov and Dzhambulat Dushayev and, without explanation, laid them on the ground and killed them by shooting each in the back of the head," the Grozny police authority told Interfax.
The Russian Defense Ministry has admitted that the crime was committed by servicemen.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?menu=1&id_issue=11423357
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