CK: Rostov Region: Protesting Miners-Pensioners File New Claims To The European Court
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posted by eagle on April, 2009 as Human Rights
Rostov Region: protesting miners-pensioners file new claims to the European CourtIn the Rostov Region, miners-pensioners from the city of Zverevo, who are striving for their privileges on heating, are filing new claims to the European Court on Human Rights. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Valery Dyakonov, deputy of the municipal duma of Zverevo. The pensioners continue their pickets and hunger strike. "We're drafting new complaints as the local court passes decisions obliging the pensioners to pay out their debts for heating," said Mr Dyakonov. "Many of them have their property already sequestrated by court marshals, people have to pay, in spite of the fact that the dispute on the privilege for heating is not over yet." According to Valery Dyakonov, the city court passes several decisions per day in favour of the organization-supplier of heat, and "the total number of judgements is already over one ...
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RFE/RL: Court Orders Russia To Compensate Families Of Missing Chechens
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
Court Orders Russia To Compensate Families Of Missing ChechensApril 10, 2009 STRASBOURG -- The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled that the Russian government must pay 282,000 euros ($373,500) to the relatives of several missing Chechens, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
The case was brought to the Court of Human Rights by relatives of people who were detained by Russian soldiers in Chechnya and have not been seen since.
Isa Dokayev, Ruslan Askhabov, and Saydi Malsagov were all detained in 2002. Khanpasha Djabrailov disappeared in 2003. And Abdul-Malik Shakhmurzayev has been since his car was stopped by Russian officers in 2001.
The court ruled says that the Russian authorities are responsible for the presumed deaths of the missing individuals.
Russian officials have not been able to clarify the circumstances of the missing peoples’ disappearance or the reasons for their detention.
News agency RIA Novosti reports that Russia has lost the majority of cases brought ...>> full...
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CK: In Dagestan, "Chernovik" Journalists Refuse To Sign The Indictment That Was Brought To The Court
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
In Dagestan, "Chernovik" journalists refuse to sign the indictment that was brought to the courtYesterday, on April 7, journalists of the "Chernovik" (Blueprint) newspaper, including its editor-in-chief, accused of kindling hatred or enmity, or humiliation of human dignity, were acquainted with the indictment, which they refused to sign. Meanwhile, back on April 5, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan Yuri Tkachov approved the indictment under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sent the case to the court.
According to journalist Magomed Magomedov, the accused journalists were acquainted with the indictment "by backdating", with violation of the remedial legislation.
"Yesterday, on April 7, we were summoned to inspector Maxim Mirzabalaev. All five of us were summoned: Timur Mustafaev, Biyakai Magomedov, Arthur Mamayev, Nadira Isaeva and me. However, Biyakai was absent because of sickness. We were invited to get acquaint with the indictment compiled by the prosecutor's office ...
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CK: Evkurov Promised To Supervise Search Of Gapur Tankiev Kidnapped In Ingushetia
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
Evkurov promised to supervise search of Gapur Tankiev kidnapped in IngushetiaDuring his meeting with relatives of Gapur Tankiev, a resident of the city of Malgobek who was kidnapped on April 3, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov promised to personally supervise the course of investigation. Until now, nothing is known about Gapur's whereabouts.
Gapur's relatives have informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia did not refute the information about power agents' involvement in the kidnapping, but said that they had no proofs of their guilt.
On April 6, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov held a meeting with relatives of the kidnapped person, which lasted for more than three hours. Same as MIA officials, Yunus-Bek Evkurov remarked that the militia had no sufficient grounds for further inquiry in relation to the FSB agents, who had been detained by Tankiev's relatives after ...
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The Other Russia: Political Violence Becoming Commonplace In Russia -Rights Leader
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
April 5th, 2009 • Related • Filed Under Sergei Kovalev, the chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Society, argues that political violence has become a common occurrence in Russia, and that authorities are largely to blame. In an open letter to President Dmitri Medvedev, Kovalev describes the growing prevalence of neo-nazi elements in the country, and wonders if Russia is returning to a neo-Soviet system where people are divided into “social allies” and “socially alien elements.” The letter was first published in the Yezhednevny Zhurnal online newspaper. An open letter to Russian President D. A. Medvedev
Sergei Kovalev
April 3rd, 2009.
Yezhednevny Zhurnal Mr. President! On the night from March 31st to April 1st, 2009, Lev Alexandrovich Ponomarev, a former deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR and later the RF [Russian Federation] State Duma, was brutally attacked. [Ponomarev], a public figure and democrat widely renowned in the country and past its borders, has ...
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