From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/31/2005 9:30 AM HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS KEEP ORGANIZING ALONG POLITICAL THEMES 31.07.2005 - 00:35:57
For Human Rights head Lev Ponomarev stated that Battered Russia has evidence that ´´peaceful citizens are regularly beaten, maimed, and raped in various cities across Russia by officials in law-enforcement agencies, first of all the Interior Ministry´´ and that prosecutors conceal these crimes...
A new public movement devoted to protecting citizens from police abuse and another calling for the cancellation of compulsory military service have just been established.
The League In Favor of Abolishing the Draft held its founding congress in Moscow on 28 July.
One of the group´s organizers, Aleksandr Podrabinek, stated that opinion polls show that around 70 percent of the population favors canceling the draft.
The other group, Battered Russia, has been established to help victims of police brutality.
For Human Rights head Lev Ponomarev stated that Battered Russia has evidence that ´´peaceful citizens are regularly beaten, maimed, and raped in various cities across Russia by officials in law-enforcement agencies, first of all the Interior Ministry´´ and that prosecutors conceal these crimes.
Semen Nateev, president of the Kalmykia Human Rights Center, noted that an event in Elista, Kalmykia´s capital, involved the beating of more than 400 people in September 2004, but got very little national coverage compared to the outcry over the police operation in Blagoveshchensk, Bashkortostan.
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