RFE/RL: Russia Seen As Snubbing European Rights Court On Chechnya
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posted by eagle on October, 2009 as Human Rights
Russia Seen As Snubbing European Rights Court On ChechnyaA makeshift memorial to Alik Dzhabrailov and Zarema Sadulayeva of the Save The Generations charity, murdered in Chechnya last month September 30, 2009 (RFE/RL) -- Activists and lawyers have seconded accusations leveled against Russia in a recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in which the group alleges that Moscow routinely ignores rulings by the European Court of Human Rights, contributing to a climate of impunity in the North Caucasus.
Russia has so far paid monetary compensation and legal fees awarded by the court. But rights activists say Moscow has largely failed to adopt requested policy changes to prevent similar violations.
"The government has to pay, but it is also obliged to investigate the offenses and to eliminate the factors that made these crimes possible," Aleksandr Cherkasov, an activist with the Russian rights group Memorial, tells RFE/RL's Russian Service. "In the North Caucasus, there have been neither investigations ... >> full...
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Prague Watchdog: Death By Starvation
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
Death by starvationBy German Sadulayev, special to Prague Watchdog
A couple of weeks ago there were reports in the media about an Islamic insurgent who defected from a group of his fellow guerrillas in the forest. The nineteen-year-old youth had left the guerrilla encampment on the pretext of gathering firewood, run away and surrendered to the law enforcement bodies in the hope of receiving mercy from his compatriots. On local television he described the misery in the camp: the fear of the constant special operations, the obsolete weapons, the lack of ammunition and food. It was time to stock up for the winter, but there was no possibility of getting hold of any supplies. The “Forest Brethren” were facing starvation. While one might have been forgiven for thinking that these reports were a staged fabrication, another gimmick in the information war, the fact is ... | >> full...
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FinRosForum: Russia Denies Visas To Reporters Without Borders
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
Russia Denies Visas To Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is “shocked” by Russia’s decision to refuse visas to two of its representatives, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. RSF says it was planning to send two officials to Moscow to take part in a press conference devoted to the third anniversary of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s slaying. RSF said in a press release that the Russian decision to refuse visas to the organization’s officials deprives RSF of being able to express its solidarity with Russian journalists and rights activists. Politkovskaya, who was Russia’s most-active journalist in covering the fighting in Chechnya, was shot dead in the elevator of her Moscow apartment on 7 October 2006. No one has been convicted in Politkovskaya’s killing. Four suspects allegedly involved in her murder were acquitted earlier this year. The Supreme Court ruled last month that the case must be further investigated. http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=34650 Related Posts >> full...
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Al jazeera: Russians Remember Slain Reporter
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
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| Russians remember slain reporter | | Three years on, Anna Politkovskaya's killers have still not been brought to book [AFP] |
Hundreds of peoople have rallied on the third anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya to demand that the authorities find and punish the killers of journalists in Russia. A well-known journalist, Politkovskaya was a harsh critic of the Kremlin. Her reports exposed widespread human-rights abuses and corruption in Chechnya. Prosecutors have said little about who might have ordered the contract-style killing of her on October 7, 2006. The suspected gunman is said to be in hiding abroad while three men accused of playing minor roles in the killing remain under investigation. Since Politkovskaya's death, at least seven journalists and human rights activists have been killed in Russia, including one who wrote for the same newspaper,Novaya Gazeta. Some of Russia's most prominent human rights activists and opposition leaders took part in a Moscow rally - which began ... |
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Jamestown Foundation: PACE: The North Caucasus Is "Beset By Violence"
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
PACE: the North Caucasus is "Beset by Violence"Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor October 2, 2009 05:42 PM By: The Jamestown Foundation A man lays flowers on a memorial for Natalya Estemirova, whose defamation trial began on September 25, 2009. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has issued a new report highlighting the deteriorating human rights and security situation in the North Caucasus. The report's author, Swiss parliamentarian Dick Marty, said on September 30, one day after the report was issued: "In April 2009, the Russian government announced the end of the operations in Chechnya. Now, however, the entire region is beset by violence" (www.assembly.coe.int, September 30).
The report by the European human rights body states that "paramilitary groups set up by illegal combatants" in the North Caucasus are becoming "increasingly organized, coordinated, widespread and technically well-equipped again." It adds that such groups are more frequently targeting senior regional officials, that suicide bombings have become ... >> full...
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