posted by zaina19 on August, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/1/2005 2:47 AM 20.7.2005 17:55 MSK Torture in Russia A majority of Russians fear the arbitrariness of the country’s law enforcement bodies: those organs of the state which should be engaged in the fight against crime. On the occasions members of the militia do appear before a court on charges of torture, then a conviction is, as a rule, followed by a conditional sentence. According to a survey carried out in June by the Yuri Levada analytical centre on behalf of an organisation Public Verdict, 71.9% of those polled said they distrusted the militia and the courts. The figure is on the increase… The way the organs of law enforcement work is especially conducive to the use of torture. The main guideline for the militia is the percentage of cases “successfully” closed. The militia often catch people who were unconnected with the crime under investigation, as it can be ... >> full...
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Counter-terrorists beat police
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/6/2005 1:35 AM
3/8/2005 Counter-terrorists beat police
Fifteen officers of the Counter-Terrorist Centre beat three officers of the republican Internal Affairs Ministry in the capital of Chechnya on 2 August. Another policeman sustained a gunshot wound.
"A quarrel occurred yesterday between a group of traffic police officers on duty and officers of the Counter-Terrorist Centre in Grozny's Staropromyslovskii district. The CTC officers wounded one policeman by shooting a submachine gun at him and cruelly beat his colleagues. Besides, they took away the duty weapons of the police officers: two handguns and four submachine guns," a source with the Internal Affairs Ministry told Caucasian Knot. He added the police officers had been admitted to hospital.
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/838284.html
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Slovakia has sent three Chechen families in Russian concentration camp
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/9/2005 1:08 AM August, 9, 2005 Slovakia has sent three Chechen families in Russian concentration camp In Vienna it became known, that, at least, three Chechen families to whom the political asylum in Slovakia was rejected last year, after the subsequent exile from the country, were recently arrested and thrown in the Russian concentration camp of death. Thus in the concentration camp were caught all members of families, including infants. Children were separated from parents and placed in a separate children's concentration camp of death. The heads of these three families earlier already were exposed to tortures in Russian concentration camps and consequently they together with the families escaped to Slovakia . Now, due to Slovaks, Russian executioners will torture their children as well. The "fault" of Chechens in ... >> full...
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The European court has begun examining the complaint made by inmates of the Lgov prison
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/16/2005 9:25 AM 25.7.2005 14:13 MSK The European court has begun examining the complaint made by inmates of the Lgov prison RUSSIA, Moscow. The European court has begun to examine in emergency session the complaints of inmates from the Lgov prison. The All-Russian Social Movement for Human Rights reported on 22 July that Russia has until the 1 August to respond to the enquiry from Strasbourg,. According to an announcement made by lawyer, Elena Liptser, (from the Centre for Joint International Defence), on 21 July information came from the European Court for Human Rights that the complaints which had been submitted to it on 8 July from the Lgov prisoners had been taken into consideration. In order to proceed further with the above-mentioned matter the European Court sent a request to the Russian government to urgently answer (no later than 1 August) a series of questions relating to ... >> full...
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Human Rights First Condemns Attempts to Silence Russian Human Rights Organization
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/24/2005 4:36 PM For Immediate Release: August 24, 2005 Contact: Nicky Lazar , (212) 845-5220 Human Rights First Condemns Attempts to Silence Russian Human Rights Organization More on Human Rights Defenders NEW YORK – Human Rights First calls for an end to criminal and administrative accusations against the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS), a human rights organization based in Nizhny Novgorod. “Russian officials appear to be singling out the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society for harassment because the organization criticizes government policies in Chechnya,” said Archana Pyati, Senior Associate at Human Rights First. “Legitimate organizations like the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society are entitled to monitor human rights violations and publish their findings and opinions without retribution.” Stanislav Dmitrievsky, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Pravozaschita (“Human Rights Defense”) and managing director of the RCFS, has been threatened with prosecution for the second time this year. After the Russian Federal Security ... >> full...
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