Russian persecution of Muslims increases
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/5/2005 6:05 AM 5.4.2005 12:55 MSK Russian persecution of Muslims increases RUSSIA, Moscow. Any Islamic literature can now be used as material evidence of guilt in court trials against Muslims. In the fall of 2004, this process occurred in many regions of Russia, noted Memorial Human Rights Center representative Vitalius Ponomarev at a press conference called " The Violation of Muslim Rights in Russia". According to Memorial, persecutions of the followers of Islam are increasing and getting worse. In the middle of March in Almetevsk (Tatarstan), in a picketing action against Muslims, several men there were detained and beaten. Law enforcement agencies found it impossible to prove that they were members of the forbidden party "Khizb ut-Takhrir", and they let the detainees go after taking their money. Ponomarev reported that according to information provided by Ayrat Vakhitov, in Tatarstan, he and other former prisoners of Guantanamo were put under ... >> full...
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14 Chechen refugees detained in Transcarpathia
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/5/2005 6:15 AM 4.4.2005 22:42 MSK 14 Chechen refugees detained in Transcarpathia UKRAINE, Svalyava, Transcarpathian region. Border service officers stopped a car in the village of Solomonovo near Ukrainian-Slovak border, which was regularly used by a local man to transport Chechen refugees. 14 of them, including a woman and two children, were arrested in the home of the man who arranged transportations in the town of Svalyava.
Moukachevo border guard unit told PRIMA-News correspondent on 1 April that the refugees arrived to Transcarpathia via Kiev and Odessa. They didn’t want to remain at home due to difficult economic situation and lack of security. A network of guides operates in Ukraine who for a fee help Chechens move to Slovakia. The refugee trafficking route is now controlled by militia and border guards.
Translated by Olga Sharp PRIMA-News Agency [2005-04-01-Ukr-03] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/4/4/31717.html
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Human rights supporters fromBashkortostan rally in Moscow.
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/7/2005 4:59 PM
Human rights supporters fromBashkortostan rally in Moscow.
07.04.2005, 17.22
MOSCOW, April 7 (Itar-Tass) -- Advocates of human rights from Bashkortostan have gathered at a commemoration stone to victims of Stalinist repressions in Lubyanka square in Moscow on Thursday, demanding the resignation of Bashkortostan President Murtaza Rakhimov. Around 200 protesters with flags and slogans in their hands turned up. Some of them have prisoner overalls on.
The protest act authorized by the Moscow city authorities was to begin at 3.00 p.m., but was postponed because a flight from Ufa that carried the protesters to Moscow was delayed.
A 65-strong police cordon is ensuring law and order on the scene: the situation is normal, no incidents have been reported, a source from the Moscow Interior Department told Tass. http://itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1913874&PageNum=0
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Samashki Demand Vengeance
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/8/2005 11:23 AM April, 6, 2005 Samashki Demand Vengeance 2 days before the tragedy, when chastisers would lose completely the right to be named people, a driver Mahmud, the head of the group of self-defense, told a correspondent of the radio "Freedom", "There has never been such, we do not need it (about the version started by Russians, that journalists from St.-Petersburg were killed in Samashki). It is the next canard. Can you imagine, they have thought it up in order just to say something that we thought they were "employees of the FSK". Russian armies are in one kilometer from us. They have mined everything, they shoot everywhere. There is nothing to eat. A plane flies by, bombs everything. There is shelling constantly. We protect the village". According to Movladi Udugov, that very day the special representative commission of the special department of the Joint Headquarters of ... >> full...
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Beslan Residents Say Forces Used Grenades
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/8/2005 9:47 AM 6.04.2005 Beslan Residents Say Forces Used Grenades Federal prosecutors are investigating claims that forces storming Beslan’s School No. 1 last September used flamethrowers and anti-tank grenades, weapons that could have dramatically increased the death toll among hostages. Beslan residents found disposable barrels from a Shmel flamethrower and a Mukha grenade launcher in buildings near the school, Susanna Dudiyeva, head of the Mothers of Beslan relatives’ group, said by telephone Tuesday. The Shmel fires compact fuel air shells, while the Mukha is designed to fire anti-tank grenades. On Monday, a group of the town’s residents handed in a used Shmel barrel, a Mukha barrel and several tank shells to the Beslan prosecutor’s office, and repeated their concerns that the weapons could have caused some of the more than 330 deaths of hostages — half of them children — during the Sept. 1-3 school seizure. «Maybe these weapons were used ... >> full...
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