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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/1/2005 2:40 AM
29.7.2005 12:24 MSK
Committee formed against torture, “cleansings”, and “filtration”
RUSSIA, Moscow. A press conference entitled "Beaten Cities Take a Stand ", took place at the Independent Press Center (Tverskaya Boulevard, 20) on July 28th. According to the All-Russian Public Movement for Human Rights, an announcement was made concerning the creation of the organizing committee, "Beaten Russia", to fight torture, “cleansings”, and “filtration”.
Human rights activists from Blagoveshchenk (Bashkirya), Kabardino-Balkarii, Kalmykii, Krasnodar, the Kurskaya district, Moscow, Nefteyugansk (Khanty-Mansiyskiy AO), the Tver Region (Bezhetsk and Rozhdestvenno), Sverdlovsk, Stavropol, Tambov, and Tula Regions participated in the conference.
Human rights activists and representatives of areas where police “cleansings”, “filtration” and other forms of collective punishments were perpetrated, responded to the call of victims in Blagoveshchenk to create a united movement of victims of police arbitrariness.
The movement “Beaten Russia” begins its public campaign with the following demands:
-The resignation of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliyev, the resignation of Chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Yuri Kalinin, and the resignation of Chief of the Federal Drug Control Service, Victor Cherkesov
- The cancellation of all written and unwritten departmental orders legalizing “filtration” and other disturbances of the rights and freedoms of citizens
- The categorical prohibition of torture, "filtration" and collective punishment
-The prosecution of criminal cases for each act of lawlessness, torture, and collective punishment carried out by law-enforcement agencies
-An investigation on the facts of "filtration" and of collective punishments by the General Procurator's office.
According to a statement by representatives of Russia’s regions: "Our country is increasingly more immersed in an abyss of arbitrariness and sadism of authority. Those in power are no longer limited to "individual" tortures and slaughters, but with increasing frequency they engage in the practice of "collective punishments. As has been proven, these violations of law are not the manifestation of local despots, but are produced on the basis of secret departmental orders, which are anti-constitutional, but are officially acknowledged by the Justice Department... The punitive experience of Chechnya has been transferred into the heart of Russia ".
Translated by OM Kenney
PRIMA-News Agency [2005-07-28-Rus-24]
http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/7/29/33111.html
