Publication to support Stanislav Dmitriyevsky
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posted by zaina19 on January, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/18/2006 10:55 AM 18.1.2006 18:56 MSK Publication to support Stanislav Dmitriyevsky RUSSIA, Moscow. On 17 January, Alexander Podrabinek, Editor-in-Chief of PRIMA-News Agency, and Nikolai Khramov, Editor-in-Chief of on-line publication Radicaly.ru, wrote to Russia's Prosecutor General, Vladimir Ustinov, in connection with the continuing trial over Stanislav Dmitriyevsky in Nizhny Novgorod. Dear Prosecutor General, On 18 January, in Nizhny Novgorod, trial will continue over Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, who is charged under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of Russian Federation. The criminal proceedings were instigated last January after Pravo-Zashchita newspaper had published addresses by Aslan Maskhadov and Akhmed Zakayev calling for peaceful resolution of Russian-Chechen conflict. Stanislav Dmitriyevsky is this newspaper's Editor-in-Chief. We believe that Dmitriyevsky's prosecution is an attempt to clamp down on freedom of press in Russia and we voice our solidarity with the accused. The actions of Prosecutor's Office are unconstitutional and contravene human rights conventions and other international standards safeguarding ... >> full...
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REPRESSED PEOPLES DEMAND JUSTICE Sun, 13 May 2001
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/18/2006 1:22 PM REPRESSED PEOPLES DEMAND JUSTICE Sun, 13 May 2001 The legacy of Stalin's deportations continues to divide communities in the North Caucasus By Alexander Dzadziev and Erik Batuev in Magas Ethnic leaders across southern Russia have accused the Kremlin of building a new "tsarist" empire which rides roughshod over the rights of its minority peoples. Delegates at the recent Congress of Repressed Peoples concluded that the Russian government had failed to honour a law passed in 1991 to protect their rights. And they threatened to appeal to international human rights organisations unless urgent action was taken to implement the legislation. Held in the Ingush town of Magas, the Congress of Repressed Peoples brought together representatives from the Balkar, Ingush and Chechen peoples as well as leaders of the Meskhetian, Crimean Tartar, Korean and German communities in Russia. All these groups suffered at the hands of the Stalinist government which, in 1944, accused ethnic minorities from the Ukraine and North Caucasus of collaborating with ... >> full...
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Joint Military Exercises Criticized
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/16/2006 12:08 AM Monday, January 16, 2006 Joint Military Exercises Criticized The Associated Press STOCKHOLM -- Two Swedish human rights organizations on Sunday criticized joint Swedish-Russian military exercises to be held in Sweden and said the Russian soldiers taking part were guilty of gross human rights violations in Chechnya. Robert Hardh, chairman of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, and Martin Uggla, chairman of the Swedish Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights, said in an article in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet that Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov had called the weeklong military maneuver "an exercise in fighting terrorism" while the Swedish government had called it a "peacekeeping operation" authorized by the United Nations. The two chairmen claimed that "fighting terrorism" is a Russian term for the war in Chechnya. Hardh and Uggla said that Russia was to send the 138th motorized rifle brigade to Sweden, which "like most other military units" ... >> full...
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Merkel in Russia: Emphasize Human Rights
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/14/2006 11:05 AM HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Merkel in Russia: Emphasize Human Rights (Berlin, January 13, 2006)—German Chancellor Angela Merkel should use her January 16 summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin to signal a shift in Germany’s Russia policy that puts more emphasis on international human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said today. “Chancellor Merkel should get German foreign policy toward Russia back on track,” said Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia Director at Human Rights Watch. “Putting pressure on Russia to respect human rights will contribute to stability in Europe in the long run.” Among the issues Chancellor Merkel should raise with President Putin are the draft Russian law on non-governmental organizations and the brutal ongoing war in Chechnya. She should also openly address the reversals in human rights progress from the 1990s, such as freedom of information and assembly. In recent years, the Kremlin orchestrated the dismantling ... >> full...
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Chechnya: Forgotten orphans
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/12/2006 2:08 AM Chechnya: Forgotten orphans In the safety of the small library of Grozny’s only orphanage Madina Akhmadova, 15, sits and incessantly reads Agatha Christie detective novels. “I’ve been here since 2001,” she explained sadly. “I came here after my parents died. Mama died in the second war, papa in the first.” Madina is studying in the eighth class of School No. 33 and says she wants to study law at university, train to be a lawyer and “fight injustice”. “First of all I will defend the rights of orphaned children,” she said. Recently, through the television programme Wait for Me - which attempts to reunite orphans with members of their families - two of Madina’s cousins were found in the city of Astrakhan. But Madina decided not to go and live with them, choosing instead to stay with the woman she calls “mother”, Birlant Kasayeva, who ... >> full...
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