OCTOBER 2006

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 10/4/2006 4:02 AM
Russia Starts Ethnic Purges Against Georgian Nationals
Publication time: Today at 12:52 Djokhar time
Russian police have raided Georgian businesses in Moscow after Russia cut transport links with its southern neighbor, escalating a crisis between the two states. Rogue Russia's "authorities" shut down a Georgian-owned casino, occupied a Georgian guest house and stole half a million bottles of Georgian wine in separate operations on Tuesday.

The action came after Moscow ordered air, sea, rail and postal links with Georgia to be cut in retaliation for Tbilisi's arrest last week of four Russian bloody terrorists and spies

Georgia released the terrorists after international mediation but Moscow has ignored U.S. and EU appeals to drop its bandit acts against Georgia. The Kremlin wants Georgia's pro-Western leadership to change its justified attitude toward terrorist Moscow.

Russian organizers canceled a visit by Georgia's national ballet and Russia stopped issuing visas to ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 10/1/2006 4:42 AM
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Cherie Booth QC offers support to Russian NGOs
Cherie Booth QC meets with non-governmental organisations during the G8 summit

On the final day of the G8 summit in St Petersburg in July 2006, Cherie Booth QC, visited a group of non-governmental organisations, whose position is now particularly difficult because of a new NGO law which clamps down on their activities. In January 2006, president Vladimir Putin signed a new law on non-governmental organisations that allows the Justice Ministry to demand any document from an NGO at any time, without a warrant, and to ban NGO projects, or even parts of projects, for not complying with Russia's national interests.
Ms Booth offered to make the visit when she met representatives of Human Rights Watch at Downing Street in April 2006. The visit was organised by Human Rights Watch and hosted by the St Petersburg ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 10/1/2006 5:03 AM
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw

Rt Hon Jack Straw MP  
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs  
Foreign and Commonwealth Office  
King Charles Street  
London  
SW1A 2AH  
 
9th September 2004  
 
Dear Foreign Secretary  
 
Human Rights Watch was dismayed to learn that the planned launch of the UK government’s Human Rights Annual Report, previously scheduled for Thursday 16 September, has been delayed. We understand that publication of the report at this time is deemed “inappropriate”, in the light of the terrible events in Beslan.  
The scenes that we have seen from Middle School No 1 in Beslan in recent days are deeply shocking. The callous brutality of those who have shown themselves willing to blow up large numbers of innocent young children, including on their first day at school, is difficult to overstate. The deaths at Beslan are an ...
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