Prague Watchdog: The Refugees' Cannon
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posted by eagle on August, 2009 as Human Rights
The refugees' cannonBy Rashid Bogatyrev, special to Prague Watchdog
I am not the first Ingush who has consciously and deliberately chosen to live outside his homeland, and I don’t think I will be the last. After being accepted by a Scandinavian country and sent to a refugee camp there, I found myself in a rather unusual situation. The refugee camp proved to be a former World War II prisoner of war camp. From the end of the war until 2001 it was used as a military base. Nowadays it houses, in relative comfort, asylum seekers from abroad: more than 15,000 have entered the country since the start of the present year. The camp consists of several blocks of living quarters, administrative buildings and countless hangars and storage facilities left over from the war. Life in the refugee camp was somewhere between a spell in some Caucasian ... |
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Moscow Times: Human Rights Runaround
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posted by eagle on July, 2009 as Human Rights
Monday, July 27, 2009
Updated at 26 July 2009 22:39 Moscow Time
Human Rights Runaround27 July 2009By Ella Asoyan
For years, the victims of Russia’s counterterrorist operations and their families have sought justice through the only effective and legal channel, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The Russian government loses roughly 95 percent of the cases that reach the court, the human rights watchdog of the Council of Europe. Russian cases made up nearly a third of the court’s case load last year, costing the Kremlin millions of euros in compensation for human rights violations. Not surprisingly, the Kremlin views the European court as a thorn in its side — and not just a financial one. While stoically paying victims’ families to the last euro cent, the Russian government has ignored the court’s demands that authorities curb human rights abuses, fully investigate crimes and bring the culprits to justice. Noncompliance with the ...
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Moscow Times: Human Rights Runaround
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
Monday, July 27, 2009
Updated at 26 July 2009 22:39 Moscow Time
Human Rights Runaround27 July 2009By Ella Asoyan
For years, the victims of Russia’s counterterrorist operations and their families have sought justice through the only effective and legal channel, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The Russian government loses roughly 95 percent of the cases that reach the court, the human rights watchdog of the Council of Europe. Russian cases made up nearly a third of the court’s case load last year, costing the Kremlin millions of euros in compensation for human rights violations. Not surprisingly, the Kremlin views the European court as a thorn in its side — and not just a financial one. While stoically paying victims’ families to the last euro cent, the Russian government has ignored the court’s demands that authorities curb human rights abuses, fully investigate crimes and bring the culprits to justice. Noncompliance with the ...
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Prague Watchdog: In photos: Rally In Memory Of Natalya Estemirova
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
In photos: rally in memory of Natalya EstemirovaPeople taking part in a rally in Moscow's Novopushkinsky Park on July 23 to remember the murdered human rights activist Natalya Estemirova. The gathering was later broken up by police. Photo report by Aleksei Litvintsev |
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NatPress: KAFFED: Natalia Estemirova’s Murderers Should Be Punished
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
KAFFED: Natalia Estemirova’s murderers should be punished
24.7.2009
The Circassian Khasa Federation of Turkey (KAFFED) which representatives are belong to all the peoples of Caucasus, condoled with the family and relatives of untimely died Natalia Estemirova and condemned the criminals and executors of her murder. “No matter whose hands did that, - it was spoken in “KAFFED Condemnation”, published on its official site on July, 20th, - the criminals should get punishment”. Let's remind, Natalia Estemirova had been kidnapped on July, 15th near her house in Grozny. Subsequently her body with two bullet wounds was found in Nazranovsky area of Ingushetia. “Natalia Estemirova's severe murder is a disgusting and cowardly crime, an encroachment to the fundamental principles of human rights, - it was spoken in the statement of the Council of Europe Commissioner on human rights Thomas Hammerberg, widespread on July, 16th by the press-service of the legal-expert center “Memorial”. - The resolute and the effective reply is needed now”. “Natalia Estemirova ... >> full...
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