Moscow Bans Beslan School Siege Memory Picket — Rights Activist
posted by zaina19 on September, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/3/2006 11:10 PM Photo: Maria Antonova, MosNews Photo: Maria Antonova, MosNews Moscow Bans Beslan School Siege Memory Picket — Rights Activist
31.08.2006
MosNews The Moscow city hall has refused to sanction a picket that was to be timed to coincide with the second anniversary of the hostage raid on a school in Beslan, in Russia’s southern province of North Ossetia, that left over 330 people dead in September of 2004.
The Moscow city hall has denied a permission to hold the picket, scheduled for Sunday, September 3, Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the human rights group Civil Assistance, told the Interfax news agency.
“We received a refusal in response to the notification sent to the Moscow administration. We received an official ban,” Gannushkina told Interfax on Thursday.
Gannushkina said the city hall had reportedly decided to ban any actions marking the 2nd anniversary of Beslan. “The rallies and pickets are banned.”
According to a Russian human rights website, “the aims of the picket were stated as follows: to honor the memory of the victims of terrorism, to call the attention of the nation’s leadership and the public to the necessity of thorough investigation into the tragic events in the town of Beslan and other terrorist attacks and to make the officials accountable for negligence and abuse of authority.”
Over 330 people were killed during the terrorist attack on the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan in September 2004. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/08/31/beslanban.shtml
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