All-Russian Human Rights Congress on situation in North Caucasus
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posted by zaina19 on January, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/22/2007 1:15 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 19/1/2007 All-Russian Human Rights Congress on situation in North Caucasus On December 10, Moscow hosted the Second All-Russian Congress in Defence of Human Rights. The Congress adopted a great package of resolutions: Solidarity and Cooperation (What can we oppose to the war in North Caucasus?). The Second Human Rights Congress marked that after the years that passed, the armed conflict remains far from its settlement. "During the period after the First Human Rights Congress (January 2001), a real, not imaginary, terror was unleashed in North Caucasus and in Russia as a whole: explosions, captures of hundreds hostages in theatres and schools. The war consequences are felt all across Russia, where "power agents" return from their Caucasian voyages, well experienced in unpunished violence. The roots of almost every all-Russian problem - from growth of xenophobia to deprivation of citizens of their suffrage - ... >> full...
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New trial on Khlebnikov's murder will start within 30 days
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/22/2007 1:24 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 18/1/2007 New trial on Khlebnikov's murder will start within 30 days The case files on the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Forbes Russian version, have arrived to the Moscow City Court for retrial. Anna Usachova, head of the press service of the Moscow City Court, has reported that the case should be appointed to hearing within 30 days, the ITAR-TASS reports. On May 5, the jury acquitted Mr. Sadretdinov and two Chechnya natives - Kazbek Dukuzov and Musa Vakhaev, accused of murdering Paul Khlebnikov. All the three were released on that very day right in the courtroom. On May 6, the Moscow City Court, basing on the jury's acquittal, exculpated all the three defendants on the case. Subsequently, on November 9, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation quashed the jury's acquittal and returned the case for a new consideration. Paul ... >> full...
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Activists of "Nord-Ost" complain of pressure by the authorities
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/22/2007 2:03 AM 18/1/2007 Activists of "Nord-Ost" complain of pressure by the authorities On January 18, 2007, a press conference "A Year to Presidential Election: Terror Victims Want the Truth" was held at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow. Activists of the "Nord-Ost" public organization took part in the press conference. They have informed journalists about their new action, which implies a tour over Russian regions with the aim to tell citizens on their viewpoint of the October 2002 terror act, and about the activities of the organization to find out the truth. In particular, the book will be presented "Nord-Ost. Inquiry Unfinished..." published with assistance of the "Foundation for Helping Terror Victims." The terror victims have a lot of claims to the authorities. The investigatory team was dissolved, no situational examination was held. And recently, the investigators of the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office have started to take signatures of ... >> full...
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Another civilian murdered in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/13/2007 1:27 AM January 9th 2007 · Prague Watchdog / Ruslan Isayev Another civilian murdered in Chechnya By Ruslan Isayev GROZNY, Chechnya – On the night of January 8 a group of armed men in two cars without number plates seized and abducted a local resident, 25-year-old Islam Navruzov, from his house in the village of Dolinsky, on the eastern outskirts of Grozny, and drove him away in an unknown direction. The abduction followed the scenario that is usual in Chechnya. On the night in question several masked men armed with sub-machine guns entered the Navruzovs’ house when the whole family was gathered together. After threatening Islam’s brothers and father with their weapons, they took him away without giving any reasons. A search was immediately begun, but produced no results. On the following morning Islam’s body, with a bullet-wound in the head, was discovered on the ... >> full...
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/13/2007 11:31 AM Self-determination 2006-07-19 All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. What is Self-determination? Essentially, the right to self-determination is the right of a people to determine its own destiny. In particular, the principle allows a people to choose its own political status and to determine its own form of economic, cultural and social development. Exercise of this right can result in a variety of different outcomes ranging from political independence through to full integration within a state. The importance lies in the right of choice, so that the outcome of a people's choice should not affect the existence of the right to make a choice. In practice, however, the possible outcome of an exercise of self-determination will often determine the attitude of governments towards the actual claim ... >> full...
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