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posted by zaina19 on December, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/15/2007 4:28 AM Anna Politkovskaya A condemned woman (from a piece written shortly before her assassination on October 7 2006), Saturday Review, October 14 2006 I am a pariah. That is the main result of my journalism throughout the years of the second Chechen war, and of publishing abroad a number of books about life in Russia and the Chechen war. In Moscow I am not invited to press conferences or gatherings that officials of the Kremlin administration might attend, in case the organisers are suspected of harbouring sympathies towards me. Despite this, all the top officials talk to me, at my request, when I am writing articles or conducting investigations - but only in secret, where they can't be observed, in the open air, in squares, in secret houses that we approach by different routes, like spies. The officials like talking to me. They are happy to ... >> full...
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"Headscarf" incidents continue in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/15/2007 4:49 AM December 14th 2007 · Prague Watchdog / Umalt Chadayev "Headscarf" incidents continue in Chechnya By Umalt Chadayev GROZNY, Chechnya – Incidents connected with the wearing of headscarves by young women and girls are continuing in the Chechen Republic. On December 12 the office of the Information Centre of the Union (formerly Council) of Non-governmental Organizations, known in Russian as “SNO”, was evicted from the House of the Press in Grozny. The reason given was the refusal by the Centre’s director to wear a headscarf. An SNO employee described the incident in an interview with Prague Watchdog’s correspondent. He said that the eviction order was issued by Shamsail Saraliyev, the republic’s Minister of Press, Information and National Policy. “On the morning of December 12 the House of the Press’s director Timur Yunusov and the head of its administrative department came into our office, which ... >> full...
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/15/2007 5:46 AM Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amanda Abrams Rights Groups Urge Fuller Investigation of Politkovskaya's Murder Washington, D.C. October 4, 2007 Freedom House and seven other human rights organizations sent letters today to Yuri Chaika, Russia’s Prosecutor General, and Aleksandr Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee, calling on them to more fully investigate journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s murder and bring perpetrators to justice. Ms. Politkovskaya was murdered a year ago, but the investigation is unfinished and no killer has been found. Public allegations asserting suspected parties’ guilt without corroborating evidence from the prosecutor’s office have served to confuse and retard an already slow process. “One year after Politkovskaya’s death, we believe that there needs to be renewed focus and attention not only to find those who enacted the killing but also to bring those who ordered the killing to justice,” wrote the groups in the letter. “We ... >> full...
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Verdict on Khudyakov and Arakcheev's case to be announced in Rostov-on-Don on December 25
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2007 6:43 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 11/12/2007 Verdict on Khudyakov and Arakcheev's case to be announced in Rostov-on-Don on December 25 At the process on the case Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering three residents of Chechnya in 2003, which is held by the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, the debate of the parties has ended. Then, judge Vladimir Tsybulnik, who is chairing the trial, has retired to the consultation room to prepare the verdict. The announcement thereof is planned on December 25. The "Caucasian Knot" has already informed that defendant Evgeniy Khudyakov had refused to participate in the debate, and Sergey Arakcheev spoke to the court stating his innocence. Liudmila Tikhomirova, who represents the victim party, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that "Sergey Arakcheev's speech was not convincing, it was a pathos presentation. Earlier his advocates' performances had also been more emotional than factual." According ... >> full...
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Leader of Russian movement "It's Time", Andrey Sidelnikov, prohibited from going abroad
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2007 2:34 PM 14.12.2007 23:32 MSK Leader of Russian movement "It's Time", Andrey Sidelnikov, prohibited from going abroad RUSSIA, Moscow. The leader of the Russian movement "It's Time", Andrey Sidelnikov, has been prohibited from going abroad. Sidelnikov reported to a correspondent of PRIMA-News that on December 13, he was supposed to leave for London from Sheremetyevo Airport. His passport was seized at the passport control point. Sidelnikov was told by the FSB that in accordance with Article 11 "On State Borders" his departure from Russia was forbidden. Article 11 ""On State Borders of the Russian Federation” concerns "the passage of persons, transport, cargo, goods and animals across the state border". Specifically, it states: "Border passage will not be allowed to foreign citizens and persons without citizenship, who, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation did not gain proper entrance into the Russian Federation, or those who, ... >> full...
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